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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/29/2020 9:24 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">mu'tlhegh wa':
pa'logh, qaStaHvIS wa' DIS, pItSa' vISop
during one year in the past, I eat pitsa
(my eating the pizza is an event being repeated during that period
more than once)
mu'tlhegh cha':
pa'logh, qaStaHvIS wa' DIS, reH/roD/pIj/motlh pItSa' vISoppu'
during one year in the past, I have eaten pizza always/regularly/often/usually
(my eating the pizza is an event being repeated during that period
more than once)
vaj.. raplaw' mu'tlhegh wa' mu'tlhegh cha' je; chaq wa' DI'onmo' neH
pIm mu'tlheghvam:
historical present lo' mu'tlhegh wa'
"looking back" Ho'DoS lo' mu'tlhegh cha'
jIlugh'a' ?
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<p>No, I would say that sentence one is stating a general truth, not
speaking in a way resembling English historical present tense.</p>
<p>(You can just say <b>wa' DIS</b> as a time expression. We have
the example of <b>wa' jaj</b> in TKW that does the same thing. <b>wa'
DIS pItSa' chab vISop</b><i> One year, I ate pizza.</i>)</p>
I really don't think another extended discussion of the difference
between using perfective in the past and not using perfective in the
past is going to be of any help. Perfective means you're looking
back at an action completed no matter where in time that action
occurs relative to you. Lacking perfective or continuous suffixes
means the sentence means anything other than perfective or
continuous.<br>
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