Read the following non-Ca'Non sentence from dsc: dsc "Battle at the Binary Stars"{mapIm ngIq maH 'e' luQaw'meH ghoS chaH} They come to destroy our individuality.I know that this sentence is non-Ca'Non, but there's something I wonder.. Isn't the {ngIq maH} third person ? So, how can we have the {ma-} on the {pIm} ? Doesn't this violate the accord rule, or however the @!#! you call it, when the verb prefix doesn't agree with its' subject ?
As with all noun-noun constructions, it's the final noun in the
series that determines what "thing" you're talking about. Here, maH
is acting like a noun and is the final noun. So the phrase ngIq
maH each of us individually is in the first person.
We're talking about us. What kind of us? The taken-as-individuals
us. mapIm ngIq maH is correct.
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