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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Does Da necessarily require an object ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (De'vID)
Wed Mar 6 11:29:49 2019
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From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 17:29:33 +0100
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On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 17:02, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
> And this is not murky territory in Klingon. It's explained to us, it's
> demonstrated for us, and it's used all the time in canon. It was settled
> before anybody thought to ask the question. The only thing we don't know
> for sure is, are there any verbs that *must* mention an object? I don't
> tend to think so.
>
About a year ago, mayqel asked the same question, but about {rang} (and
{ngI'} was also brought up in the thread).
There are some verbs which, if you used them without an object, would
express a meaning which is weird or not quite right or is missing
something, but that's an issue of semantics, not grammar.
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thing we don't know for sure is, are there any verbs that <i>must=
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mention an object? I don't tend to think so.</p></div>
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out {rang} (and {ngI'} was also brought up in the thread).<div><br></di=
v><div>There are some verbs which, if you used them without an object, woul=
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