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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/17/2021 8:12 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<div dir="auto">Now forget the romulans, and assume we want to say
"they are there", without specifying who these "they" actually
are. Shouldn't we write the following?</div>
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<div dir="auto">pa' chaHtaH chaH'e'</div>
<div dir="auto">they are there</div>
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<div dir="auto">Wouldn't this be the correct way to say it? It
seems weird, but I can't see anything wrong with it.</div>
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<div dir="auto">The only alternative I could thing of is writing
just {pa' chaHtaH}. But the only meanings I get from this are:</div>
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<div dir="auto">1. "they continuously are the there".</div>
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<div dir="auto">2. "they are there" but the the identity of these
"they" isn't just something unspecified, but rather something
missing from the sentence. In other words, this sentence feels
like someone saying "there, are the.." and that's it.</div>
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<div dir="auto">So, the only reasonable choice is saying {pa'
chaHtaH chaH'e'}. But am I correct on this?</div>
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<p>No, just say <b>pa' chaHtaH.</b> Or just <b>pa' chaH</b> if the
continuousness of it is throwing you.</p>
<p>When you're linking a pronoun with another noun, the pronoun is
the subject of the sentence. TKD tells us this.</p>
<p>Remember, in copula sentences, THERE IS NO VERB. The pronoun is
not a verb which some subject is performing. It's still a pronoun.</p>
<p>The only time you have <b>X pronoun Y'e'</b> is when X and Y are
nouns (or noun phrases), not pronouns. <b>chaH</b> is not a noun;
it is a pronoun.<br>
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