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[Tlhingan-hol] Story: ghuv = The Recruit - 9
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">If you can read a single phrase in Klingon, you can read anything. It’s all made out of phrases. Here are seven more, in the continuing story. Torg is on board a shuttlecraft as part of a mysterious military assignment.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">'ortaHvIS be' 'IH</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">q</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">u', ghu' QIj maQ. Qobbogh Qu' le' chavmeH, tugh ghom mach muv torgh. potlh ngoQchaj 'ej pegh. nab naQ QIjbe' maQ. torgh Qu' neH Del.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The first sentence has three verbs: ‘or, ‘IH and QIj. You know ‘or (=pilot) is part of a subordinate clause, because it has a V9 suffix, -vIS. You know</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">–vIS</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri"> is always accompanied by –taH, and you were told to remember what</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">that</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> means. Can you tell what the verb ‘IH (=be beautiful, be handsome) is doing? It’s acting like an adjective. <’IH be’> = “The woman is beautiful.” <be’ ‘IH> = “beautiful woman”. It’s an important distinction, (and one that Bing hasn’t grasped yet), but you’re smarter</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> than Bing</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">. be’ ‘IHqu’ is the subject of the verb ‘ortaHvIS. So The first clause is “While the very beautiful woman pilots”.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The rest of the sentence is a simple OVS clause.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Object = ghu’ = situation</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Verb = QIj = explain</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Subject = maQ = “Sign” the code name of the big man who just shanghaied Torg.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Here’s the second sentence:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Qobbogh Qu' le' chavmeH, tugh ghom mach muv torgh.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">It contains six words that can be verbs. One of them can also be a noun, and it is a noun here. Two of the verbs have V9 suffixes. Two are acting adjectivally. And one is the main verb of the sentence. I’ll imagine you’re a hardy beginner or a low intermediate speaker and need to parse this. First of all, I’ve been kind to beginners and put a comma between the clauses. This sentence can be easily parsed without the comma because of the adverb tugh (= soon).</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> An adverb of that sort</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> has to precede the clause it modifies. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Qob = be dangerous<BR>
-bogh = which, who, whom, with reference to the subject OR object of the verb it’s attached to </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">As far as we know, a relative clause with –bogh has to have at least one noun as part of it, so start looking for that noun .. there it is..</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Qu’ = mission, task, duty (learn this word, if you haven’t already) Qobbogh Qu’ = the mission which is dangerous</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">And then there’s another verb:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">le’ = be special</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">A be-verb right after a noun, acting adjectivally, so it modifies the noun.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">chav = achieve (it also means achievement, but it has a V9 on it so it must be a verb here)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">-meH = in order to, for the purpose of, the clause that the verb is attached to </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"><Qu’ chavmeH> = in order to achieve the mission</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"><Qob Qu’> = the mission is dangerous – Note that the be-verb goes BEFORE the noun to make this sort of sentence</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri"><Qu’ le’> = the special mission – Note that the be-verb goes AFTER the noun to make this sort of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">phrase</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">“In order to achieve a dangerous special mission ...”</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ghom = group</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">mach = be small</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">muv = join</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">“... soon Torg will join a small group.”</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The “will” sense comes only from “soon”. You could translate it as “soon joined” or “soon joins”.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Next:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">potlh ngoQchaj 'ej pegh.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">potlh = be important (also “important thing” but as it’s the only verb candidate in its clause, it can’t be a noun here.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ngoQ = goal</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">-chaj = N4 their – the plural counterpart of –Daj</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">pegh = be secret, keep a secret</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">“Their goal is important and it is secret.” OR “Their goal is important and he keeps it secret.” </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">nab naQ QIjbe' maQ.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The verb in this sentence is the one with the verb suffix on it: QIjbe’ = doesn’t explain. Object precedes: nab naQ. Subject follows: maQ</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">nab = plan</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">naQ = be entire</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">QIj = explain</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">“maQ does not explain the entire plan.”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="it"><FONT FACE="Calibri">torgh Qu' neH Del.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="it"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Del = describe</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">neH = only – because it’s right after a noun and there’s no role for Del if it means want.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">“He describes only Torg’s mission.”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">If this is useful to you, please let me know. If this COULD be useful to you, except that I’m not giving you the information you need, let me know too.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Someone asked if they could forward this to another group. BY ALL MEANS! I’m doing this to facilitate the learning of Klingon. That’s my mission. It</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’s neither dangerous not special and my looks don’t take anyone’s breath away, ‘a batlh vIta’rup.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Qov</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">P.S. For those of you who received the full story in advance, I have already done the push-ups I earned by using a disallowed suffix on a verb acting adjectivally</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, and I corrected it here.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></P>
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