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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] tlhlIngan veS qeS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (De'vID)
Sat Nov 7 09:58:59 2015

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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 15:58:42 +0100
From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
To: tlhIngan Hol mailing list <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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qunnoQ HoD:
>> >>> ok,I understand now. thank you !

janSIy:
>> >> tlhIngan Hol Dalo'taHvIS mu'tlheghmeyvetlh DajatlhlaH 'e' vIHar.

qunnoQ HoD:
>> > i didn't quite understand the translation of this.. <<in the klingon
>> > language you need saying that the sentences are able to believe>> ???

De'vID:
>> The word {mu'tlheghmeyvetlh} "these sentences" are referring to "ok, I
>> understand now. thank you!" which you wrote above. Keep that in mind
>> and give it another try.

qunnoQ HoD:
> <<you need using these sentences in tlhIngan Hol,you can be saying that you
> believe>> ?
> I can't figure it out !

I think you have confused {-vIS} "while" with {-nIS} "need".

Also, remember that Klingon is OVS (object verb subject), the reverse
of English SVO. So {jatlh 'e' Har} is not "say that [...] believes",
but "believes that [...] say".

-- 
De'vID

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