[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.
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SuStel
http://trimboli.name
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