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Re: Klingon WOTD: paS (verb)

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: paS (verb)
• Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:46:58 EDT

In a message dated 9/28/2006 9:23:31 AM Central Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:

>    jIpaSqu'mo' narghpu' qaSuchmeH 'eb.
>    I was too late to visit you.  (st.klingon 1/98)
>    ("Because I'm very late, the opportunity to visit you has escaped.)
> 
> [BTW notice the "purpose noun" {qaSuchmeH 'eb} as the subject of the verb 
> {nargh}.  IIRC it's the only example we have.]
> 
>    qaSuch vIneH 'ach narghpu' 'eb.  jIpaSqu'.
>    I was too late to visit you.  (st.klingon 1/98)
>    ("I want to visit you, but the opportunity has escaped. I am very late.")
> 
>    qaSuchlaHbe'.  jIpaSqu' vaj narghpu' 'eb.
>    I was too late to visit you.  (st.klingon 1/98)
>    ("I cannot visit you. I am very late, thus the opportunity has escaped.")
> 
> 

Is there any more text in st.klingon 1/98 besides these sentences?
By "the only example we have", do you mean of a purpose noun as the subject?

lay'tel SIvten

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