[tlhIngan Hol] Verb suffix order

MorphemeAddict lytlesw at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 11:31:22 PDT 2016


What if you just memorize real examples of verbs with multiple suffixes?
Then after a while of using those, other orders will seem/feel odd/off.

lay'tel SIvten

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 11:58 AM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe it was some months ago, I had talked about the problem of
> remembering the order of the verb suffixes.
>
> Then I wrote, that I had the difficulty of remembering their order.
>
> In order to solve this problem, I followed this method :
>
> I memorized the suffixes of each type. And every day, I recited the
> entire order in mind. The important thing here, is while reciting the
> suffix list in your mind, to *feel* as you go from type 1 to type 9,
> some kind of "cascade".
>
> I can't quite put it in words, but you must *feel* as if you're going
> "down a ladder" (or up a ladder), so as your mind to get the feeling
> of what comes first, what follows and what comes last.
>
> After doing this for a few months, I can't say that always - while I
> write - the correct order of suffixes automatically appears in my
> mind, but the good thing is that even if I have to "actively" think
> for it, it takes just a couple of seconds.
>
> For the time being, its the best solution I have been able to find for
> this problem.
>
> mayqel
> _______________________________________________
> tlhIngan-Hol mailing list
> tlhIngan-Hol at lists.kli.org
> http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.kli.org/pipermail/tlhingan-hol-kli.org/attachments/20160630/2717f174/attachment-0002.htm>


More information about the tlhIngan-Hol mailing list