ok, I understand ! always aspect confused me.. It will sound strange, but when it comes to aspect, I know there are things I don't understand, but I just can't realize what those things are. If this makes any sense.. I wish klingon had tenses instead of aspect.. lets say I want to say "I didn't know that"; what do I write ? {time-stamp jISovbe'} or {jISovbe'pu'} ? Is my not-having-known a completed event or not ? I think it is a completed event, which continues neverthless. go figure.. I just can't understand aspect. I wish we had tenses instead. qunnoH jan puqloD ghoghwIj HablI'vo' vIngeHta' On 7 Dec 2016 7:07 pm, "SuStel" <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
On 12/7/2016 11:02 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
SuStel:
Explain to me, for instance, the difference between *ben * *> puSqu' **Athens** vIDabtaH* and *ben* *> puSqu' **Athens**vIDab.* Also explain the difference between *Hoch jaj puH DujwIj* *> vISeDtaH* and *Hoch jaj puH DujwIj vISeD.*
You're definitely right. I re-thought these sentences without the {-taH}, and there is no difference. Thanks for pointing this out !
It's not that there's no difference; it's that the version with *-taH* does not mean exactly what the version without it means, and it's the version without that you intend.
*Hoch jaj puH DujwIj vISeDtaH *means something like *every day I am continuously driving my car.* But continuity and being ongoing are not really what you're trying to convey. Sure, the act of driving is continuous from one moment to the next, but what you're expressing is your habit of or regularity in doing any driving at all. That's not a continuous concept. You want to tell me that your driving was a regular thing you did. There's no suffix for that. *Hoch jaj puH DujwIj vISeD.*
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