tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Oct 15 18:03:35 2001
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RE: KLBC: Turning a verb into a noun
> Time for my next question. Is there any way in Klingon to make a verb into
a
> noun? I want to turn the verb "to sleep" into the noun "sleep".
> What I really want to say is "Sleep is important".
> which makes me want to use {-'e'},
Putting the - in there makes it look like you're refering to a suffix.
The suffix -'e' and the pronoun 'e' are two different things. Be careful
not to confuse them.
> Qong potlh 'oHtaH 'e'
Unfortunately 'e' can be only the object of a sentence.
One method that gets used a lot for this task is [-meH Qu'].
potlh QongmeH Qu' - the task of sleeping is important.
(potlh is a noun, TKD p100; and a verb, TKD p183)
or with two sentences,
Qonglu'. potlh ghu'vetlh. - one sleeps, that situation is important.
Qonglu'. potlh wanI'vetlh. - one sleeps, that occurrence is important.
or we could use the unpopular -ghach. But -ghach wants to have another
suffix used with it. This is covered in TKD p176. Perhaps in this case we
could the suffix -chu' with it. Qongchu'ghach (a thorough state of sleep).
potlh Qongchu'ghach
But don't get carried away with -ghach. If you can re-cast your ideas so
that verbs can be used as verbs, that is certainly prefered. Klingons like
ACTION.
> I still have the question about turning verbs into nouns,
Another way is the VERB suffix -wI', not to be confused with the noun
suffix -wI'.
ghojmoH - teach
ghojmoHwI' - teacher
qet - run
qetwI' - runner
DloraH