On 3/11/2019 12:04 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:

{naDev Da’elpa’}. 

 

If you asking about {naDev}, it’s a noun in Klingon not an adverbial, and thus can be the object of a verb.  If you’re asking whether {‘el} takes an object, it does; e.g.:

 

tach vI'el, HItlhej
Let's go to the pub. (RT)

Hevetlh wIghoSchugh veH tIn wI'el maH'e'

that course will take us into the [Great] Barrier as well! (ST5)

 

neHmaH Da'el net tu'
Caught breaching the Neutral Zone. (MKE)

He's asking whether 'el is a verb with an inherent locative sense. The answer is no, it is not. The object of 'el does not have to be a locative. The fact that naDev is automatically locative doesn't change the lack of locative requirements of 'el.

tugh naDev wI'el
Soon we will enter here.

It's awkward in English to say enter here; I wonder if naDev being inherently locative makes this just as awkward in Klingon. You might prefer sentences like tugh pa'vam wI'el or tugh Daqvam wI'el.

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