3 Nouns
3.1 Simple Nouns
3.2 Complex Nouns
3.2.1 Compound Nouns
3.2.2 Verb plus -wI'/-ghach
3.2.3 Other complex nouns
3.3 Noun suffixes
3.3.1 Type 1: Augmentative, diminutive
3.3.2 Type 2: Number
3.3.3 Type 3: Qualification
3.3.4 Type 4: Possession/specification
3.3.5 Type 5: Syntactic markers
3.4 The noun-noun construction
3.5 Emphasizing Nouns
4 Verbs
4.1 Pronominal prefixes
4.2.1 Type 1: Oneself/one another
4.2.2 Type 2: Volition/predisposition
4.2.3 Type 3: Change/Resume
4.2.4 Type 4: Cause
4.2.5 Type 5: Indefinite subject/ability
4.2.6 Type 6: Qualification
4.2.7 Type 7: Aspect
4.2.8 Type 8: Honorific
4.2.9 Type 9: Syntactic markers
4.2.10 Relative ordering of the suffixes
4.3 Rovers
4.4 Adjectives
6 Syntax
6.1 Basic sentences
6.2 Complex sentences
6.2.1 Compound sentences
6.2.2 Subordinate clauses
6.2.3 Relative clauses
6.2.4 Purpose clauses
6.2.5 Sentences as objects
6.2.5.1 Instead
6.2.5.2 Should/Ought to
6.2.6 Nominalizer
6.3 "To be"
6.4 Questions
6.6 Comparatives and superlatives
6.7 Placement of adverbial elements
6.8 Indirect objects
6.9 Verbs of motion
6.10 Between
6.11 With
6.12 Speaking and Quotations
6.13 Music
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10 HolQeD
10.1.1 Some Comments on Orthography
10.1.2 An Interview with Marc Okrand
10.2.2 Letters to the Editor (excerpt)
10.2.4 Okrand's Notes
10.3.2 DS9 Skybox Card
10.3.3.1 Interview: Okrand on -ghach
10.3.3.2 chuvmey
10.3.4 Everyday Klingon
10.4.2.1 Interview: Okrand on {-bogh} and more
10.4.2.2 chuvmey
10.4.3.1 Everyday Klingon
10.4.3.2 Star Trek I Klingon
10.4.4 More from Maltz
10.5.1 A Note on Proverbs
10.5.2.1 More on Hoch
10.5.2.2 Everyday Klingon
10.5.2.3 chuvmey
10.5.3.1 The Tale of 'I'
10.5.3.2 Everyday Klingon
10.6.2 Everyday Klingon
10.7.2 Maltz Online
10.7.4 Interview with Marc Okrand
10.8.1 Maltz Online
10.8.3 matlh juppu' mu'mey
10.8.4.1 Maltz Online
10.8.4.2 Notes from Star Trek V
10.9.3 matlh jup mu'mey
10.9.4.1 Everyday Klingon
10.9.4.2 More from Maltz
10.10.2 A Friend of Maltz: {nItlhDu' yaDDu' je}
10.10.4 matlh juppu' mu'mey
10.11.2 matlh jup mu'mey
10.11.3.2 More From Maltz
10.11.4 Frasier's Klingon
10.12.2 Maltz's Reward: Part I
10.12.3 Maltz's Reward: Part II
10.12.4 Maltz’s Reward: Part III
10.13.1 Maltz's Reward: Part IV
Verbs of motion describe actions that involve a change in location — movement from one place to another. Common examples include:
- jaH - go
- ghoS - come, approach
- leng - roam (to a place), travel (to a place with or without a specific reason)
- ve' - travel (to a place with a specific reason)
- chegh - return
Note that vIH (“move, be in motion”) is not a verb of motion in this sense, as it describes being in motion but not changing location.
- lupDujHom vIchegh - I return to the shuttle.
- pa'Daq yIjaH - Go to the room!
- may'Daq jaHDI' SuvwI' juppu'Daj lonbe' - A warrior does not abandon his friend when he goes to battle.
- SIbI' bIghHa' yIghoS - Go to jail immediatly (SIbI' - immediatly, bIghHa' - jail)
- qul bIQtIqDaq ghoS - He travels along the river of fire (qul - fire, bIQtIq - river
The object of a motion verb refers to the place where the movement begins or ends. This location is sometimes marked with the suffix -Daq ("at, on, in, to") or -vo' ("from"), which might seem like a general locative. However, the verb prefix clarifies the meaning by and removes any ambiguity. Some examples:
- DujDaq pa'wIjDaq vIleng - I travel to my room on the ship (Duj - ship, pa' - room)
- DujDaq pa'wIjDaq jIleng - I roam around my room on the ship
The first sentence would more commonly be said DujDaq pa'wIj vIleng, without the -Daq on pa'wIj.