Re: Senyecan Verb Idiom I

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, caeruleancentaur
<caeruleancentaur@Y...> wrote:
> In your various conlangs how do you express the concepts:
> 1. to have just
> and
> 2. to be about to
Good question.  I haven't had a correspondent idiom
in Jovian so far.  To stress the completion or the
unstarted state of an action, one could simply use
the prepositions |his| "this side of" and |tran|
"through, the other side of":

  Johan ix his pfider sud gionur.
  [jo:n iS hiS 'pfi:d@r sug 'gi@n@r]
  {John is this side of confessing his sin.}
  "John has yet to confess his sin."

  Johan ix tran pfider sud gionur.
  [jo:n iS tram 'pfi:d@r sug 'gi@n@r]
  {John is through confessing his sin.}
  "John has confessed his sin."

For the sense you wanted, ie stressing the imminence
or the recentness instead, I've made up the following
idioms:

  Johan peinde suore pfider sud gionur.
  [jo:n pend su@r 'pfi:d@r sug 'gi@n@r]
  {John dangles above confessing his sin.}
  "John is just about to confess his sin."

  Johan reize de pfider sud gionur.
  [jo:n rejz d@ 'pfi:d@r sug 'gi@n@r]
  {John returns from confessing his sin.}
  "John has just confessed his sin."

Thanks for the inspiration.


-- Christian Thalmann