Birthday sentence
Hello everybody!
Sorry for the silly question.
A friend of mine is a Klingon fan and is having a birthday party.
I would like to give him his present accompanied by a greeting card in Klingon, something like “happy birthday noble and brave Günther!”
With help of online translators I managed to cook up the following:
ghoS ej’ sub Günther qoSlIjbe’ DatIvjaj!
Do you think that this is OK?
Thanks in advance
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First, a word of warning, online Klingon translators don’t work. They often produce nonsensical sentences. When I translate the sentence you got:
ghoS ‘ej Sub Günther qoSlIj be’ DatIvjaj!
He/she/it approaches (him/her/it) and may you enjoy the hero Gunther’s your birthday women
You can use some of those bits to make something close to what you want to say, something like this should work.
qoSlIj DatIvjaj, yoHbogh Subbogh je Günther
May you enjoy your birthday, Günther who is brave and heroic
There’s no word for “noble”, so I went with a verb that has a slang meaning of “be heroic”.
Dear qurgh, thank you so much!!!
I feared that online translators would be bad.
You saved my friend’s birthday.
Thanks a lot!
Dear qurgh, I hope not to try your kindness, but I would like to add another question: my friend always claims that his birthday is actually an unbirthday party, since it has been delayed a while. So, is it correct to translate unbirthday by qoSlIjbe’ ?
Thanks in advance!
Only verbs are negated with {-be’}. Nouns, on the other hand, are negated with the verb {-‘en}.
So “your un-birthday” is {qoSlIj ‘en}.
Related silly question, if I’ve missed saying happy birthday to a friend on the day, is there a way to say belated happy birthday in Klingon? Typically we say “qoSlIj yItIv” but I’m a day late now
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