Re: Active and Passive please help.
| From: | Joe Hill <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 19:17 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: Active and Passive please help.
> Joe Hill wrote:
> >AAAARRRGGGHHH!!!
> >
> >My language has no passive sentences. I can't seem to translate it was
> >called into and active sentence...
>
> We-ell, Tairezazh doesn't have a passive either, and this've never been a
> problem. Then, Tairezazh transitive verbs don't require a subject, so you
> can get much the same effect as English "he was killed" by saying _staksek
> senos_, lit "killed him". Perhaps you could use a similar system?
I could do that, but I like the idea of having a verb "to be called" I
could do what you suggested. I think I will do it for your example...
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