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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] beginners corner
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Mon Feb 2 06:43:39 2015
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 12:43:24 +0100
From: Lieven <levinius@gmx.de>
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Am 02.02.2015 um 11:43 schrieb Anthony Appleyard:
> English "we meet" intransitive means "we meet each other".
Okay, there lays the detail: in German, the intransitive version of
"meet" is alwas done using an additional word. Compare this:
"wir treffen dich" - "we meet you" - {pIghom}
"wir treffen uns" - "we meet (us)" - {maghom}
In german, you cannot say "we meet" like "wir treffen". It may be
similar in other languages.
The translation of the verb must be done with an additional word:
english intransitive "meet (each other)" = "sich treffen"
english transitive "meet (somebody)" = "jemanden treffen"
As usual, you see that Terran languages are much more difficult than
Klingon!! :-)
(and you can learn a lot about languages while learning Klingon)
--
Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher
http://wiki.qepHom.de
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