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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] -Ha' on adverbs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Klingonteacher)
Wed Sep 5 10:05:04 2012
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:04:46 +0200
From: Klingonteacher <levinius@gmx.de>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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ghItlAm 05.09.2012 15:11, schrieb Felix Malmenbeck:
> I'd interpret =ABtughHa'=BB as referring to a future event (relative to t=
he setting); basically the equivalent of =ABpoH nI' pIq=BB.
> For "not answering sooner", I might recommend something like =ABjIjangta'=
pa' jImImtaH=BB.
Yes, Klingon is very verb-based, but we all know that there is no tense =
in Klingon and we can use time stamps also in the past. I believe that =
is correct to use {tugh} in the past like
{wa' ben QIn vIHevpu' 'ej tugh jIjangta'}
"I got a message one year ago and I answered soon."
Any objections?
-- =
Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
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