[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: qoch

[Karen Alessio]

Can someone give an example sentence for this please?
would " I squeeze myself into..." be translated as
"...jIqoch'egh" or just "...jIqoch"?
On Dec 5, 2015 12:36 PM, "Alan Anderson" <qunchuy at alcaco.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 11:15 AM, chransberry at gmail.com
> <chransberry at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As in "my brother squeezed into a hollow tree" or "I can't squeeze all my
> > clothes into this drawer". Squeezing oneself, or something else?
>
> Oneself. It should really be "squeeze into", with the locative idea
> baked into the verb.
>
> Marc Okrand's description of its usage in the qepHom interview was
> very specific: "The object of this verb is the space — like a small
> car or a crowded elevator — being squeezed into, and this includes
> clothes or shoes that are too small."
>
> -- ghunchu'wI'
>
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