tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 27 18:36:22 2006
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Re: {ghung} and {'oj} as stative verbs?
On Feb 27, 2006, at 4:29 AM, Philip Newton wrote:
> ... I thought at first that Klingon
> uses a verb "jIghung"...
You indeed should think this, because that's exactly what TKD says it
does.
> ...but then I considered whether it might be the
> same construction as English, since predicate adjectives work like
> verbs in Klingon, so {jIghung} might well be "I am hungry" rather than
> "I hunger".
nuqjatlh? {jIghung} *is* literally "I am hungry."
It sounds like you're thinking about this backwards. What you're
calling "predicate adjectives" *are* verbs in Klingon. Maybe you're
worried that TKD might be wrong when it says "be hungry"? I think
that's a silly thing to worry about.
-- ghunchu'wI'