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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I don’t find it quite as odd as Sustel does. I read {vIghro' tIQ vIje'ta'meH} as “In order for me to have (successfully) purchased the ancient cat”, although
I probably wouldn’t have used an aspect suffix myself. E.g. providing some context: In order for me to have purchased the cat, I would have needed to use a credit card (which I didn’t have with me at the time).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">BTW, in Russian you can use the perfective with negative verbs in the past tense - even when you haven’t completed your purpose - though under specific circumstances.
I found a useful brief overview online at <a href="http://www.russianlessons.net/grammar/verbs_aspect.php">
http://www.russianlessons.net/grammar/verbs_aspect.php</a> . Here’s what it says WRT negative verbs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Using the perfective implies that the action was completed successfully, unless<br>
used in the negative (see note below). So for example saying that ‘He took an<br>
exam on Friday’, if ‘took’ is used in the perfective it implies that he passed the<br>
exam. Using the imperfective would imply that the result is unknown, or he<br>
didn’t pass. [Or that he never took the exam at all. Voragh]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> […]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Aspects in the negative<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Using the negative with perfective verbs indicates the person failed to do that<br>
action. Using the imperfective will normally simply mean that it didn’t happen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Я не позвонила - I failed to phone (perfective) (but I was expected to)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Я не звонила - I didn’t phone. (imperfective)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">There are many more subtleties to the proper use of aspect and tense in Russian which, trust me, are difficult for foreigners to master like a native. Most never
quite do; I’ve been at it for over forty years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">But back to Klingon… I could find no examples of {-ta’meH} or {-pu’meH}. In fact, the only instance of a Type 7 suffix used on the same verb with {-meH} I know
of is:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> molor vuQlu' tu'taHmeH chalqach toS qeylISvam legh neH
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Molor is amused, he climbs a watch tower to see this Kahless. (PB)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">--Voragh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> SuStel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 3/13/2019 10:42 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">SuStel:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">> I wouldn't put perfective here unless I had<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">> a very good reason I could articulate.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">What do you mean by that ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Just what I say. Your purpose, when it was a purpose, wasn't completed, so no perfective. Unless you can explain exactly why you think perfective is required, I don't think it is.<o:p></o:p></p>
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