On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Alan Anderson <qunchuy@alcaco.net> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 2:06 PM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:
ghunchu'wI':
{ret} alone, without being preceded by an actual specifier of a time period, is very odd.
I know. Because of that reason in the original sentence I wrote {'op ret}.
Do you understand the sentence you quoted? Do you know what "time period" means?
{'op} just means "some, an unspecified amount". It isn't a time period like {rep} or {Hogh}. {'op ret} "some ago" is not a complete idea.
I think you might be out of the loop a bit. At the latest qep'a', MO explicitly gave examples that {'op ret} and {'op pIq} were used for "at some time in the past/future". It's the first image here: http://www.kli.org/activities/qepmey/qepa-chamah-wejdich/new-words/