Am 22.08.2016 um 19:39 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
thank you very much SuStel and lieven for taking the time to explain all this.
perhaps -slowly- I'm beginning to understand the difference between tense and aspect, although -currently-, I feel it is a subtle one.
Well, the special thing is that you can also use aspect for events in the future. For instance to say something like "I hope that I will have killed the man by tomorrow evening" you can use the aspect suffix. {qaSpa' wa'leS ram loD vIHoHta' 'e' vItul} NOW I hope (a non-contunious and not ended situation) that at the moment called "tommorow evening" (an event in the future) the action of killing is over (hence the -ta') suffix. Is that understandable? (@mayqel) Is that correct? (@SuStel)
If I'm writing a passage, which clearly concerns a number of completed events, do I need to repeat the {-pu'} on every verb, or just once or twice suffices ?
You need it depending on how the verb is "going on": Here's an example using all the suffixes. I hope it works like this: {Soppu'mo' Qong vavwI', 'ach vIvemmoHta'be'mo' QongtaH ghaH.} "My father sleeps because he has finished eaten. But because I did not wake him up, he ist still sleeping." -- Lieven L. Litaer aka Quvar valer 'utlh Grammarian of the KLI http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher http://www.klingonwiki.net