noun-noun constructions with "days ago"
Could we say something like the following? {muQuchmoHpu' cha'Hu' wanI'mey} the events of the day before yesterday made me happy ~ mayqel qunen'oS
On 5/4/2020 9:02 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
Could we say something like the following?
{muQuchmoHpu' cha'Hu' wanI'mey}
the events of the day before yesterday made me happy
Sure, why not? -- SuStel http://trimboli.name
SuStel:
Sure, why not?
For some weird reason, whenever I read for instance {cha'leS pItSa' vIvut}, I understood it as "in two days from now..". So, in the {cha'Hu' wanI'mey} case, I was "getting the feeling", that it would mean something like "in the time period of two days ago..". Anyway, I understand now, thanks. ~ m.q.
On 5/4/2020 10:36 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
SuStel:
Sure, why not?
For some weird reason, whenever I read for instance {cha'leS pItSa' vIvut}, I understood it as "in two days from now..".
So, in the {cha'Hu' wanI'mey} case, I was "getting the feeling", that it would mean something like "in the time period of two days ago..".
Don't forget about *chavatlh'ben HIq*/two century old ale/ from /Power Klingon./ The time words only tell you when a verb happens when they come at the beginning of a sentence as a time expression. Technically, *cha'leS pItSa' vIvut* could mean either /I will cook pizza two days from now/ or /I will cook two-days-from-now pizza,/ but the latter obviously makes no sense, so no one will interpret it that way. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name
On 5/4/2020 10:40 AM, SuStel wrote:
*chavatlh'ben HIq*/two century old ale/
Sorry, that got away from me. *cha'vatlh ben HIq* -- SuStel http://trimboli.name
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