[tlhIngan Hol] {je} "too" applying to the adverb

mayqel qunen'oS mihkoun at gmail.com
Thu Mar 31 06:45:04 PDT 2022


jIH:
> ngugh bIpujpu'
> DaH bIpuj je
SuStel:
> The perfective on the first sentence is
> wrong. Being weak is a quality, not an
> action that is completed. There might be
> some unusual situations where being
> weak can be described as performed and
> completed, but this isn't one of them.

I can't understand this. Does this mean that one can use the perfective
{-pu'} only on action verbs, and not on quality verbs?

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