[Tlhingan-hol] Beginner Story: nuq bop bom 76-78

[Robyn Stewart]

I'm sending this back to the list so that other beginners may check 
their work, and other advanced Klingonists may check mine, and offer 
you advice and encouragement.

(pab rejmorghpu': taghwI'vamvaD Hol vaghDIch 'oH tlhIngan Hol'e' 'ej 
chaq loSDIch 'oH DIvI' Hol'e'.  pupbe'DI' DIvI' Hol pebepQo'.)

At 11:02 09/01/2012, you wrote:
>meH SeHtaHvIS DeghwI', yaS wa'DIch rIQ tlhej HoD.
>
>While helmsman is controlling the bridge, captain accompanies 
>injured first officer.

maj.

>juppu' chaH 'e' qaw.
>
>He remembers they are friends.

bIlugh.


>wa'maH Hut ben vajar HoD ghaH yaS wa'DIch vav'e'.  (remember that 
>vajar is the name of the captain)
>
>nineteen years ago first officer's father was vajars captain. (I'm 
>not entirely sure here)

qatlh bISovbejbe'?  bIlugh.


>meH 'elqa'DI' HoD DeghwI' legh.
>
>  Captain sees helmsman as soon as he entered the bridge again.

HIja'.


>ravDaq Qotqa'taHmo' DeghwI' Heghpu' 'e' Haj HoD.
>
>As the helmsman lies on the floor again captain dreads he has died.

majQa'.

>QongchoHpu'mo' neH DeghwI' bIj 'e' buQ.
>
>As helmsman has been only sleeping he threatens him that he'll punish him.

tlhoS qar.

>(I'm not sure here about neH, I assume you use adv sense of that 
>word, but shouldn't it be at the beginning then ? neH QongchoHpu'mo' 
>DeghwI' bij 'e' buQ ?

Most adverbs go at the beginning, but neH is one of those special 
adverbs that goes in a different place in the sentence. If it goes 
after a verb it trivializes that verb "has merely fallen asleep".

>Also I'm not sure about -pu' in QongchoHpu'mo'. Qongpu'mo' seems to 
>do the job here. I might have decoded it incorrectly.

Qongpu'mo' - has been sleeping, has slept
QongchoHpu'mo' - has fallen asleep. You correctly got the "fallen 
asleep" idea from -choH in the next one, just not this one.

>DeghwI' SonDI' HoD, QongchoH HoD.
>
>As soon as captain relieves helmsman, captain falls asleep.

majQa'.

>-----Questions---- (answers not necessarily in the text, your 
>imagination may be required)
>
>qatlh meHDaq mob DeghwI'?
>
>chaq DeghwI' par Hoch

bItlhaQ. DujvamDaq yIntaH loS nuv neH.  rIQqu'taH yaS wa'DIch. 
tlhejtaH HoD. meH SeHtaH DeghwI' 'ej QongtaH HungpIn.

>
>chay' DeghwI' bIj HoD?
>
>cha' Hoghmey vutnIS DeghwI' (I wanted to say here something like: He 
>will need to cook for 2 weeks. Or even he will need to work as a 
>cook. cha' Hoghmey vutwI' mojnIS DeghwI'.)

A useful trick for you is qaStaHvIS <time period> "while <time 
period> occurs". That is "during" or "for" the time period.

qaStaHvIS cha' Hoghmey vutnIS DeghwI'.

majQa'. qaStaHvIS wa' Hogh puchpa' Say'nISmoH. SochHu' 'e' ra' HoD.

>  'Iv ghaH yaS wa'DIch vav'e'?
>
>qaw tlhIngan wo' 'e' HoD'e' noyqu' ghaH (I'm probably wrong here: 
>He's the most famous captain empire remembers.)

Remember that the 'e' must represent the sentence before it, and that 
that sentence must be the object of the  next sentence.

Maybe:

HoD noyqu' ghaH 'e' qaw tlhIngan wo' - The Empire remembers that he 
is a very famous captain.

You can learn a special new construction: law'/puS.

HoDvam noy law' Hoch noy puS - this captain is the most famous of all

>qatlh Doy' DeghwI' HoD je?
>
>ram naQ Duj tI'taH chaH (I was trying to say They have been fixing 
>ship entire night, however I couldn't fine way to use present 
>perfect continous in tlhIngan Hol, what I wrote in the end in my 
>opinion is: They was fixing ship whole night. However there might be 
>a better way to say it. Any advices ?)

You want qaStaHvIS again, and don't forget the verb prefix.

qaStaHvIS ram naQ Duj lutI'taH.

>poS Hu' ghIlghameS vIHev. vIlaD 'e' vInab. ngeD mu'tay' 'e' vIQoy. 
>DaleDpu''a' ?

I think you made a typing error here. Did you mean loSHu' - four days 
ago? wej paqvetlh vIghaj jIH. chaq vIje'.

- Qov 
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