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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/23/2020 9:46 AM, Lieven L. Litaer
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:1cf98185-b7eb-45f3-6077-87adc4635442@gmx.de">Am
23.01.2020 um 15:32 schrieb SuStel:
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<blockquote type="cite">*jIQuch rIntaH.
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*/I was happy (but that happiness is over forever)./
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Are you sure? How can you deliberately decide to have completed
being
<br>
happy?</blockquote>
<p>Maybe you decide to live a happy life. When your life is over,
your happiness is over, and you accomplished it.</p>
<p>Or maybe you decide to have happiness on the job. When you leave
that job, that particular happiness is over, and you accomplished
it.</p>
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cite="mid:1cf98185-b7eb-45f3-6077-87adc4635442@gmx.de"> In
addition, if possible at all, it would mean that I have turned
<br>
to being happy, and that would last for ever.
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<p>That would be <b>jIQuchchoH rIntaH.</b> The addition of <b>choH</b>
changes a quality verb into an action verb, and so follows what I
said earlier about action verbs and <b>rIntaH.</b><br>
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cite="mid:1cf98185-b7eb-45f3-6077-87adc4635442@gmx.de">
What does {jIQuchta'} mean?
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TKD:
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This suffix is similar to {-pu',} but it is used when an activity
was
<br>
deliberately undertaken, the implication being that someone set
out to
<br>
do something and in fact did it.
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[...] instead of using the suffix {-ta',} [...] The resulting
<br>
construction, {rIntaH,} literally means "it continues to be
finished" or
<br>
"it remains accomplished," It is used to indicate that the action
<br>
denoted by the preceding verb is a fait accompli: it is done, and
it
<br>
cannot be undone.
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<p>My happiness is done and cannot be undone. It doesn't mean I am
still happy or that my happiness is permanent; it just means that
the happiness I experienced once upon a time cannot be undone.<br>
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