Modern Golic Vulcan Grammar Lesson 11

TGV/MGV - Lesson 11

Ba-|Iyi-Gol-Vuhlkansu - Tupa 11

REGULAR STRONG VERBS

Pakhaik Kari-Tor-Zhitlar

New Vocabulary

Uzh-Zhit-Feim

Betau to approach

Danau to explain

Fnashtau to sweep

Kitau to write

Klashau to guard

Leipau to bake

Nehau to rot

The'polau to sauté

Tishau to like

Vashau to destroy

Vravshau to fail

Has-bosh ill, sick

K'avon hungry

Mol-kur magenta

Muhl healthy, well

Nev-kur maroon (color)

Rik'avon full (no longer hungry)

Zhai-kur gray

Zhar-kur orange (color)

Kap bread

Lan-tol floor

Lof purpose

Ne-yartra meadow

Nisan examination, test

Opilsu chef

Sazh vegetable

Svai flower

Urozh crops

Notes

Pitohlar

Regular Strong Verbs (RSV's) are very common in Traditional and Modern Golic Vulcan. Like other Golic verbs, they are very simple to use, having the same form for all persons in present tense. There are no separate transitive or intransitive forms in Traditional and Modern Golic Vulcan. Unlike Weak Verbs and Irregular Strong Verbs, the RSV's have a different ending in simple past tense.

In this lesson we will be discussing only the present tense of RSV's. Later lessons will cover past and future forms of verbs. Below is an example of a present tense RSV:

Kitau = to write

Kitau nash-veh = I write

Kitau du = you (singular) write

Kitau sa-veh = he writes

Kitau ko-veh = she writes

Kitau ish-veh = it writes

Kitau etek = we write

Kitau dular = you (plural) write

Kitau au = they write

Exercise 1

Tusok 1

Translate the following into Federation Standard English:

1. Leipau Sonok kap. 2. Fnashtau T'Luki lan-tol. 3. Klashau sehlat pla-kur svep. 4. Danau Sonok lof na'T'Luki. 5. Nehau urozh svi'solai. 6. Vashau salan svailar svi'ne-yartra. 7. Tishau sa-kan ko-kan. 8. The'polau Opilsu nev-kur sazhlar. 9. Sonok muhl hi T'Luki has-bosh. 10. Vravshau sa-kan nisan. 11. Betau nesh-kur sehlat mol-kur svai svi'ne-yartra. 12. Tishau T'Luki yon-kur heh zhar-kur svailar hi ri nev-kur. 13. Sa-kan k'avon hi ko-kan rik'avon.

Exercise 2

Tusok 2

Translate the following into Golic Vulcan:

1. T'Luki bakes the bread. 2. Sonok sweeps the floor. 3. The sehlat guards the green door. 4. T'Luki explains the purpose to Sonok. 5. The crops rot in the field. 6. The girl likes the boy. 7. The wind destroys the flowers in the meadow. 8. The chef is sautéing the orange vegetables. 9. Sonok is sick but T'luki is well. 10. The girl fails the test. 11. The white sehlat approaches the maroon flower in the meadow. 12. T'Luki likes blue and orange flowers but not red. 13. The girl is hungry but the boy is full.

The student is encouraged to learn further by making new sentences based on words from the dictionaries.