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Sentence #2241979

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 Vortarulo Vortarulo February 21, 2013 February 21, 2013 at 2:44:54 PM UTC flag Report link Permalink

I'm *very* unsure about the order of words in this sentence. There are many contradicting rules here:

{DaH} 'now' as an adverbial should be at the beginning of the clause.
{tlhoy} 'overly' as another adverbial should also be at the beginning of the clause.
{jIyItmeH} 'for me to walk' should precede the matrix verb.
{jIqan} 'I am old' in this sentence would definitely come last, since there is no overt subject (except if one wanted to use {jIH} 'I').

I'm quite sure that {DaH} and {jIqan} are in their correct positions, but what about {tlhoy} and {jIyItmeH}? One might missunderstand this as "I'm old in order to walk too much now."

Maybe I should rephrase this to {DaH jIqan, vaj jIyItlaHbe'.}, which matches the meaning, but not the structure of the original. What do you think?

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #241565Now I am too old to walk..

DaH jIyItmeH tlhoy jIqan.

added by Vortarulo, February 21, 2013
➜ #241565Now I am too old to walk.

linked by Vortarulo, February 21, 2013
➜ #4957643Jetzt bin ich zu alt, um zu gehen.

linked by ghobIn, March 6, 2016