Re: Auxiliary verbs

On Tue, 9 May 2006 Jim Henry wrote:
[snip]
> 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

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