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Re: Auxiliary verbs

From:Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 10, 2006, 17:22
On Tue, 9 May 2006 Jim Henry wrote:
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> Expressing fine shades of attitude and emotion > was one of the main design goals of gzb, and > though it's not quite what it should be in that area, > it's less inadequate for that than for many > other purposes. > > Specifically, for "want, may, will, need" etc, there are > > vy - willing, intending, deciding on something. > gâw - considering, thinking about whether to do something > ĝĭj - hesitation, indecision > sru - desiring something (without necessarily intending to do/obtain it) > źu - wishing, hoping for something (implies it's something not > entirely in one's power) > bâň - being allowed, permitted to do something > dlu - having the right to do something > ĵy - needing, requiring > > These normally take the stative verb ending > -van, except "vy" and "gâw" which may take the > active verb ending -zô depending on the > semantic context.
Jim, That's neat! Nice to have terse ways to say these things. I'll keep a copy of this set of auxiliaries for reference and reuse. Regards, Yahya -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/334 - Release Date: 8/5/06