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Re: Beginner

Lieven L. Litaer (Quvar) ([email protected])

• From: Lieven L. Litaer (Quvar) <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Beginner
• Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:07:08 +0100
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Am 22.01.2004 14:28:32, schrieb "Scott Willis" <[email protected]>:

>> Christoph:
>> 'e' nIvchoHmeH, vIvumtaH.
>> I am working(not knowing when or if I will succeed), so it becomes
>> better(superior).
>
>Drop the {'e'}. It indicates an object, and AFAWK, {nIv} does not take one.

If it could, then you should use {'oH} instead of {'e'}.
Because {'e'} refers to the previous sentence as a whole: 

   {'e' vISov} is translated
   "I know, that [it's true what you said]"

But it cannot mean "I know that [fact]". 
And this is what Christoph intended to say, I suppose: 
"improve IT, the quality" and not "improve that the quality is bad."

Quvar.

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