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Re: Using object prefixes with "intransitive" verbs

QeS lagh ([email protected]) 

ghItlhpu' Dar'Qang:

>I typed 'through', but really meant 'via'.  I was looking for how much of a 
>sense of 'via' is created using -Daq with verbs of motion.  These sentences
>were just examples.
>I'm a little hesitant to go too strictly by 'in/at/on' because of the 
>idiomatic nature of prepositions.

I'd say that "via" in English is more an instrumental ("by means of") than a 
locative, and therefore doesn't fall under the umbrella of meanings provided 
by {-Daq}. With this in mind, I would recast your sentence to

{pa'Daq vI'elmeH lojmIt vIlo'} or {pa' vI'elmeH lojmIt vIlo'}

as opposed to, say, {pa'Daq vI'elmeH Qorwagh vIlo'} "I entered the room via 
the window". I think that's a more likely situation; one normally wouldn't 
say {pa'Daq vI'elmeH lojmIt vIlo'}, you'd just say {pa' vI'el}, unless you 
really are a fan of extraordinary redundancy in your speech. :)

Savan.

QeS lagh

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