[88788] in tlhIngan-Hol
The verb {rIn}
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?UTF-8?B?QW5kcsOpIE3DvGxsZXI=?=)
Thu Feb 10 09:51:56 2011
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:36:57 +0800
From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcsOpIE3DvGxsZXI=?= <esperantist@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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Hi,
I came across the verb {rIn} again, translation: "be accomplished, be
finished", for which I have one example sentence (Voragh, do you have
more?):
{luHoH rIntaH.}
They have killed him.
We can clearly see that this is not a usual construction in Klingon, the
pronoun {'e'} is not involved, its just two verbs after another. What's the
relation between them? And how does the construction work with other
persons? {luHoH} clearly means "they-kill(ed)-him", but does {rIntaH} mean
"they-are/have-finished" or {it-is/has-finished}? If I want to say something
like "I have finished reading the book." with this construction, is it {paq
vIlaD jIrIntaH.} (I am being finished reading the book.) or {paq vIlaD
rIntaH.} (It is being finished that I read the book.)? What do you think?
Any insight in this construction is welcome.
- André
