From: James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>
To: Vadim Cherny <vadimcherny AT gmail.com>
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org, jljustiss AT msn.com, randallbuth AT gmail.com
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] BH verbal system
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 01:22:54 +0000
Hi,
>
> As for weqatal, it is about highly assured events. Again, the
> construction of "Exclamation + PT" is common in Russian for very
> strong commands (ну, сделал, быстро!).
Interesting. We have that in Ukrainian as well "zrobuv bigom!". We have
something like it in English although not exactly the same word for word
"Get it done quickly!" rather than "Do it quickly!".