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[Tlhingan-hol] I'm new, and confused by -lu'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (IH)
Mon Jul 15 13:12:13 2013
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:11:25 -0600
From: IH <iceglow.hunter@gmail.com>
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Hi, everyone! I'm a complete beginner in learning Klingon; I started
last week. I'm using The Klingon Dictionary and looking online for
help as well.
I'm having trouble understanding the use of the suffix -lu'. I
understand when it's used for passive voice, as in the example from
TKD:
Daqawlu'taH, "you are to be remembered"
However, in some other examples I have no idea why it's there, for
instance another example found just under that one:
HeghqangmoHlu'pu', "it made him/her willing to die"
Should I interpret this in a passive voice, as, "he/she was caused to
be willing to die"? Another confusing one is not from TKD, but I saw
it on the kli.org website:
Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam, "Today is a good day to die."
Here it seems like -lu' is letting us know that it's a good day for
some indefinite subject to die. In English we just use the
to-infinitive for that, but I guess Klingon doesn't have infinitives?
So is -lu' a common way to form something similar to an infinitive?
What about the option of making the verb a noun (I don't know how,
perhaps using -ghach, or using nothing at all) and then since you
can't use -'meH anymore, using -vaD? Or would that be wrong?
Thanks,
-qulcha
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