<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 21:28, Lieven L. Litaer <<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de">levinius@gmx.de</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
And then, suddenly, I just remembered a nice canon example:<br>
"My death sentence was commuted"<br>
{vImuHlu' net wuqHa'.} (ENT)<br>
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THERE! noun --> verb<br>
(I'll check if I find more canon proof for this.)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think a good example is {chay' jura'}, literally "how do you command us?", subtitled as "what are your orders?" in Star Trek III.</div></div><div><br></div><div>I think many beginners, if they were asked to translate "what are your orders?", would come up with {nuq bIH [order]meylIj'e'} and get stuck on missing a noun for "order, command". </div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>