Name
English: Rachel Andeen
Noun
English: none, nothing, no one
German: nichts, keine/r
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Notes
KGT adds the meaning of "no one."
parmaq choH pagh teHqu', choH tu'DI' lajDaj.
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds ["Very true[ly] nothing changes love when its acceptance finds change."] (Sonnet 116)
quv vuv nuv pagh ghajbogh neH
Honor is for those with nothing to lose! PB
jagh Duj DaQaw' 'ach pagh qama' Datlhapqa'
Destroy enemy vessel without retrieving prisoners. MKE
Conjunction
English: either/or (sentences)
German: entweder/oder (zw. Sätzen)
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Notes
bISoptaH pagh bItlhutlhtaH
You are either eating or else you are drinking. TKD
taH pagh taHbe'
[yIn pagh yInbe' (Okrand's first version ST6)
"To be or not to be." ST6
(KGT 194): There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, of a non-Klingon actor who attempted to play the lead in the original Klingon version of Shakespeare's Hamlet but was shouted off the stage when he began the famous soliloquy by saying, taQ pagh taQbe' ("To be weird or not to be weird"), rather than the correct taH pagh taHbe' ("To be or not to be"; literally, "[one] continues or [one] does not continue").
pay' HIvDI' lo'wI' pagh mupDI' QIHchu' bIH
[They] provide a damaging surprise attack or give a
devastating backhand stroke. SP2
HeghDI' tlhIngan SuvwI' pagh tlhIngan SuvwI' HoHlu'DI'
When a Klingon warrior dies or is killed... S31
pollaH pagh polHa'laH
can either keep it or discard it KGT
(idiom for "The matter is unimportant" or "It does not
make any difference.")
vIpollaH pagh vIpolHa'laH
I can either keep it or I can discard it. KGT
DapollaH pagh DapolHa'laH
You can either keep it or you can discard it. KGT
chaw'vam yIpol 'ej SIbI'Ha' yIlo' pagh 'oH yImech
This card may be kept until needed or traded. MKE
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qoj and/or (conj)
'ej and (conj)
Cf. ghap either /or (conj. for nouns)
N.B. Do not confuse with the nouns pagh "nothing, none" or pagh "no one"; the number pagh "zero"; or the ship name pagh Pagh (TNG "A Matter of Honor"). pagh is also the fan name of Eric Andeen.
