[tlhIngan Hol] Verbs which contain for, about, etc

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Thu Oct 5 12:02:59 PDT 2017


On 10/5/2017 2:58 PM, SuStel wrote:
>> And in case someone wonders why I'm asking..
>>
>> In cases where I wanted to say "I gave to myself a present", since 
>> there is no prefix for "me-myself", I wrote {qunnoqvaD nob vInob}.
>>
>> But if I want to say "we care only for us", and I want to write 
>> {maHvaD neH maSaH}, I stumble upon the fact that the concept of 
>> {-vaD} is already included in the {SaH}.
>
>     — in the chart notes subject-object combinations which cannot be
>     expressed with the Klingon verb prefix system. For such meanings,
>     suffixes (section 4.2.1) and/or pronouns (section 5.1) must be
>     used. —TKD
>
> There is no prefix for "me to myself," so use suffixes and/or prefixes.
>
> *jIHvaD nob vInob
> */I give a present to myself/
>
Correction: suffixes and/or pronouns.

-- 
SuStel
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