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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/18/2019 1:24 PM, Felix Malmenbeck
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">The use of the suffix {-Ha'} does not imly that the situation or the
action was different before. It's just the opposite meaning.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">While there are some canonical examples that may suggest this to be the case (words like {jaQHa'} come to mind), the original description in TKD suggests that it requires either an undoing of a previous state/action, or that something is done wrongly:
"This negative suffix implies not merely that something is not done (as does -be'), but that there is a change of state: something that was previously done is now undone. For convenience, it will here be translated as "undo", but it is closer to the English prefixes mis-, de-, dis- (as in "misunderstand", "demystify", "disentangle"). It is also used if somethign is done wrongly. Unlie -be', -Ha' can be used in imperatives."
TKD also uses the example sentence Do'Ha', and comments "The use of -Ha' in this sentence suggests a turn of luck from good to bad."</pre>
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<p>I think Okrand's terminology is a bit loose here. He describes,
for example, <b>-Ha'</b> as a change of state, but that's <b>-choH.</b>
I think what he's trying to do is explain the difference between <b>-Ha'</b>
and <b>-be'.</b> A word isn't simply negated by <b>-Ha',</b>
he's saying, but its sense actually goes in the opposite
direction.</p>
<p>So <b>Do'Ha'</b> means not necessarily that the subject had been
particularly <b>Do'</b> and was switching to <b>Do'Ha',</b> but
that <b>Do'Ha'</b> is less <b>Do'</b> than simply <b>Do'be'.</b>
It's active movement in the opposite direction. The "undoing" may
be more virtual than real.</p>
<p>So <b>yItlhHa'</b><i> be lenient, indulgent</i> is more than
just someone who lacks the quality of strictness; it's someone who
is actively lenient, the very opposite idea.<br>
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