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Re: KLBC-"Bringer of certain death"

HoHwI' writes:
>        Okay, I'm trying to say (as a title/name of an entity) "Bringer of
>Death".  I got this far *qemwI' Heghbej*.  Now this seems good to me but I
>have a sneaking suspicion, I'm saying "the bringer's death".

"He certainly dies the bringer."  {-bej} is a verb suffix, so {Hegh} is
obviously a verb in this phrase.  Since "die" doesn't really work with an
object, the end result is pretty strange.

If you want to say "certain death", try using the noun suffix {-na'}.
And your suspicion is justified -- to say "X of Y", Klingon puts the
words in the order {Y X}.  That's the same order as English, by the
way; "bringer of death" is "death bringer".

-- ghunchu'wI'               batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj

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