[Tlhingan-hol] Religious terminology

qunnoQ HoD mihkoun at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 10:20:42 PST 2015


> When you want to express uncertainty about a verb, add {-law'} to it, don't use {Qub}.

luq !

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 8:13 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
> On 12/4/2015 1:00 PM, qunnoQ HoD wrote:
>>>
>>> Does it make more sense now?
>>
>>
>> HIja' ! reH Qatlhqu' {-‘e’}. DaH vIyaj jIQub.
>
>
> yIjatlh: DaH vIyajlaw'. ("I think I understand it now.")
>
> When you want to express uncertainty about a verb, add {-law'} to it, don't
> use {Qub}.
>
> If you REALLY wanted to use {Qub}, you'd have to make the thing you think
> the object of your thinking:
>
>    vIyaj 'e' vIQub
>    I think that I understand it
>
> Either sentence can still take other sentence parts:
>
>    DaH vIyaj 'e' vIQub
>    I think I understand it now
>
>    vIyaj DaH 'e' vIQub
>    I now think I understand it
>
> This is true for all sentences-as-objects. But for uncertainty {-law'} is
> better.
>
> --
> SuStel
> http://www.trimboli.name/
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tlhingan-hol mailing list
> Tlhingan-hol at kli.org
> http://mail.kli.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol



More information about the Tlhingan-hol mailing list