<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We've never seen it. A lot of stative verbs have {-Ha'}, so I'd probably be more inclined to accept one of those in the Q-spot. I'm not sure how I feel about {-be'}, but then we don't know much about what verb suffixes can be used in the law'/puS construction. For a meaning like your sentence, you can negate the law'/puS verbs themselves, see: <a href="http://klingonska.org/canon/2004-03-holqed-13-1.txt">http://klingonska.org/canon/2004-03-holqed-13-1.txt</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">{tlhIngan Hol mu'tlheghvam tIq law'be' DIvI' Hol 'elaDya' Hol joq mu'tlhegh tIq puSbe'}</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">which would mean "This Klingon sentence isn't longer than the Greek and/or English sentence," in other words, that it is shorter or equal in length.<br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 8:31 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"><div dir="auto">At another thread, I wrote the sentence:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">{tlhIngan mu'tlheghvam tIqbe' law' DIvI' Hol 'elaDya' Hol qoj mu'tlhegh tIqbe' puS}</span><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">With the intented meaning "this klingon sentence isn't longer than the greek and/or english sentence".</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">I would like to ask whether</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif"> the {tIqbe'} is an acceptable verb to be placed in the slot of the law' puS construction.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Can we use there a verb carrying suffixes ?</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">~ nI'ghma</span></div></div>
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