English: like
German: mƶgen
Source: TKD
KLCP Level: 2
(st.k 3/02/1998): par "dislike", for example, is probably the more neutral or expected reaction of a Klingon to someone else; parHa' "like" (or, more revealingly, not "dislike" or "undislike" or "misdislike" or even "disdislike" [?!], since it's made up of par "dislike" plus -Ha', the negative suffix implying that something is undone or done wrongly) is a modification (an undoing?) of this expected reaction. ... the only (known) way to express the opposite of par "dislike" is by adding a negative suffix to par. Unlike QuchHa' "be unhappy" and 'IQ "be sad", there's no choice when it comes to like; you've got to use a word based on par: parHa'. It appears that the only kind of like there is is the "undoing" or "misapplication" of dislike. (Of course, you could also say parbe' "like" or, more literally, "not dislike", using the negative suffix -be' "not"; but parbe' is also based on par. parHa' is heard more frequently than parbe', however, and this may be a hint at the usual way a Klingon looks at things.) Interestingly (and bolstering the idea that dislike is a default), there's also the word muS "hate" (which is presumably stronger somehow than par "dislike"). It also has no known opposite except for the suffixed forms: muSHa' "dis-hate" or "unhate"; muSbe' "not hate".
There is no usage for this word in the database.
