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RE: new adventure for pIl'o'! / KLBC




jatlh pIl'o':

		tugh DuSaQ'a'Daq taghwI'vaD vIHaD.
I read this as "Soon at the university, I will study it for the beginner".
It's grammatically correct, but I'm not sure that is what you wanted to say.
I'm guessing that you want to say something like "Soon I will study at the
university in order to become a beginner". If so, then you don't want to use
{-vaD} here. {-vaD} is used when you are doing something to benefit a person
or other object. If you are doing something to achieve another action (for
example, studying *in order to become* a student), then you would use the
verb suffix {-meH} ("in order to, for the purpose of").
For example,
{jonwI' vImojmeH, cham vIHaD} "In order for me to become an engineer, I
study technology."


		vItIvchu' vInub, 'ach  ghaytan ngeDbe'.
The verb {nub} actually means "be suspect", rather than to suspect something
else. It might be used in the sentence {nub targhvetlh}, which you could
translate as "That targ is suspect" or perhaps "That targ seems suspicious".

{pIH} ("expect") is a verb that you could use in your sentence, instead of
how you used {nub}. If you say "I expect that I'll thoroughly enjoy it",
you're "expecting" the entire sentence "I''ll thoroughly enjoy it". So you
will also need to use the word {'e'}, for a sentence-as-object.
For example,
{bIQap 'e' vIpIH} "I expect that you'll succeed".

The second part of your sentence, {'ach ghaytan ngeDbe'}, is fine.


		    puS HuchlIj.    qay'  ngoDvam.
I think you want to say {puS HuchwIj} here, unless you've been snooping
around in my bank account ;-) Good otherwise.


		paq vIngIpnIS.

		HaDmeH  paq munojqang  'Iv?
This is fine. If you include a verb prefix on {HaDmeH}, (such as
{jIHaDmeH}), then this will show that the action is to help *you* study.

However, if you leave off the verb prefix on {HaDmeH}, as you did, I could
interpret {HaDmeH} as modifying {paq} only. That is, {HaDmeH paq} - "a
book-for-learning". So the whole sentence would be:
{HaDmeH paq munojqang 'Iv?} "Who's willing to lend me a book-for-learning?"


		[HolvaD lIHtaHghach] 'oHtaH paq pong.  lugher *Fromkin
*Rodman je.
This first sentence isn't quite complete. If you check in TKD, on page 68,
you'll see that the subject of the "to be sentence" (in this case, {paq
pong}) needs the noun suffix {-'e'}.
Also, you don't need the {-taH} suffix on the pronoun {'oH} in "to be
sentences".
So, your sentence would be:
{[HolvaD lIHtaHghach] 'oH paq pong'e'} - which literally means "As for the
book's name, it is [Introduction for Language]"


		loSDIch *edition vIghajpu'.  (*DaraQvo')
Using the verb suffix {-pu'} here means that the action is completed. If you
possessed the book, but then lost it or returned it, then the action is over
and you no longer possess the book. If that is the case, then the {-pu'}
here is fine. Otherwise, you'll just want {vIghaj} without the {-pu'}.

		javDIch *edition vIpoQ.
Also, for this sentence and the one above, look at the word order. When
numbering things, in Klingon put the number after the object.
For example:
{mIv wejDIch} "Third helmet"
{*edition loSDIch} "Fourth edition"

batlh yIHaDchu'!

- taD




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