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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/25/2019 2:21 PM, RE Andeen wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><ghe'>
is “be transformed, transmuted, metamorphosed, totally
altered”<br>
<ghe'moH> is “cause to be transformed, etc.”<o:p> <br>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">tlhIngan
Hol has no tense, so <maS Daghe'moH'a'> could mean any
of the following:<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>Are
you terraforming the moon?<br>
Did you terraform the moon?</span></p>
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<p><i>Did you terraform the moon</i> is a perfective concept in
almost any context: you're asking about a completed event from
your viewpoint of asking about a past action. It requires a
perfective marker.</p>
<p>Now, if you're asking whether terraforming was the sort of thing
you did in the past, then you don't need perfective for that,
because you're not asking about a completed event. "Last year I
was on the moon-terraforming team. I look forward to the day they
finish that."<br>
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<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">Will
you terraform the moon?<o:p> <br>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The
addition of a type-7 suffix can add additional clarity, though
it is not required. For example:</span></p>
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<p>The addition of a type 7 suffix is required if you intend to
express the concept represented by that suffix. If you intend to
describe something with perfective, then you must use a perfective
suffix (or <b>rIntaH</b>). If you intend to describe something
that is ongoing, then you must use a continuous suffix. Lacking
any such suffix means the action is not completed and not
continuous.</p>
<p>You can't leave off an aspect suffix when describing an aspect
any more than you can leave off <b>-laH</b> when encoding ability
into a verb.</p>
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