[Tlhingan-hol] A question on aspect

[lojmIt tI'wI' nuv 'utlh]

See the suffixes {-ta’} and {-lI’}. They mean what you suggest, with the added potential of suggesting intent.

In other words, if you are saying that something was happening for a while and then it ended, use {-lI’}. That’s what it means.

If you want additionally to say that something was happening, and that action was an effort toward an intentional goal, and then the goal was reached (and so the action stopped), then use {-ta’}. 

You can use time stamps to suggest the moment that the action stops.

wa’leS, Qu’wIj vItoy’ta'.

Tomorrow, I will (quite intentionally) complete the service of my mission.

wa’Hu’ tlhuHlI’ jaghwI’.

Yesterday, my enemy stopped breathing.

lojmIt tI’wI’ nuv ‘utlh
Door Repair Guy, Retired Honorably



> On Oct 25, 2015, at 10:26 AM, qunnoQ HoD <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> i'm pretty sure that the answer will be <<no>>,but just to err on the safe side i will ask anyway..
> 
> -taH is used to indicate an ongoing action (nughoStaH = it is approaching us)
> -pu' is used to indicated something that has been completed (vIneHpu'= i wanted them)
> 
> can someone use both suffixes on the same word,to indicate an action that was ongoing and eventually was completed ? something like {nughoStaHpu'}
> or {nughoSpu'taH} ? meaning <<it was approaching us/it had been approaching us>>
> 
> qunnoQ
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