[Tlhingan-hol] -Ha' on adverbs

Klingonteacher levinius at gmx.de
Wed Sep 5 07:04:46 PDT 2012


ghItlAm 05.09.2012 15:11, schrieb Felix Malmenbeck:

> I'd interpret «tughHa'» as referring to a future event (relative to the setting); basically the equivalent of «poH nI' pIq».
> For "not answering sooner", I might recommend something like «jIjangta'pa' jImImtaH».

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?


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