<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 3:15 AM, mayqel qunenoS <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" target="_blank">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Unfortunately, at this thread, on this occasion, what has been said so<br>
far fails to explain why the {Soch DIS vorgh jIQuch} is ungrammatical.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>To me it's ungrammatical because "previous four years" isn't a label for a specific moment in time (a time stamp), unlike "Monday", "noon", "12 days ago". Are you trying to say "seven years ago I was happy"? That would use a time stamp - {Soch ben jIQuch}</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Thank you for taking the time to explain all this, but since I can't<br>
understand what's going on here, I will continue using expressions<br>
like {Soch DIS vorgh} without the {qaStaHvIS}.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you want to say something occurred while an amount of time occurred (a time span), you need to use {qaStaHvIS} with the amount of time. Are you trying to say "For the last seven years, I've been happy"? That would use a time span - {qaStaHvIS Soch DIS vorgh, jIQuch} - "While seven years occur, I am happy". <br></div><div><br></div><div>qurgh</div></div></div></div>