[tlhIngan Hol] Making someone do something to someone/something else

[Aurélie Demonchaux]

I have been wondering about how to perfectly convey sentences where there
seems to be 2 subjects, such as "She made you wait for us" and just came up
with an idea that I wanted to discuss with you: using < ... ’e’ qaSmoH >

For instance:
juloS ’e’ qaSmoH
> Literally: She caused it to happen that you waited for us

Or, for the example from last month (they made the dog enter the cage:
DogvaD mo’ lu’elmoH):
mo’ ’el dog ’e’ luqaSmoH

When you think about it, in "She made you wait for us", the subject is
"she" but the object is not "you", it is the action/event "you wait for us"
taken as a whole, thus <... ’e’ qaSmoH > seems a logical way to phrase it.

What do you think ? Has it maybe been discussed already ?

Best,
Aurélie
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