RE: KLBC: Prefix trick

["Andeen, Eric" <Eric.Andeen@Sequencia.com>]

jIjatlh:

<< The "prefix trick" is a bit of Klingon grammar. If a verb has an indirect
 object (IO) that is first or second person (me, you, us) and a direct
object
 (DO) that is third person, then instead of using the usual {IO-vaD DO verb}
 formation, the verb prefix can be changed to indicate the indirect object.
 Examples:
 
 SoHvaD matlh vIpong - "I call you Maltz" - becomes
 matlh qapong
 
 jIHvaD paq yInob - "Give me the book" - becomes
 paq HInob
 
 
 pagh
 Beginners' Grammarian >>

jatlh T'Lod:

>>>>>
Where would I classify this in the Klingon dictionary?  In simple sentences
or
in the verb prefix section?  I ask only because I want to create my own
personal dictionary that would enable me, myself, and I to understand
Klingon
better.  I would not and never will distribute it, since that is illegal.
Also, should the double -bogh suffixed verb comment go under relative
clauses?
>>>>>

I'd put the "prefix trick" in the same section as the verb prefixes and
anything about subjects and objects. I don't know what you mean by "the
double -bogh suffixed verb comment". If you're talking about my advice to
put a repeated subject in the first clause instead of the last, that's more
of a style issue than anything else.


pagh
Beginners' Grammarian