[Tlhingan-hol] Training

[qunnoQ HoD]

> You can say {qeqtaHghach} "continuous training." Or you can say
{qeqta'ghach} "completed training." Or a bunch of other things, depending
on the penultimate suffix.
excellent ideas SuStel, thank you ! the only thing I don't understand is
the "penultimate suffix".. what does this mean ?

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:37 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:

> On 11/6/2015 9:16 AM, qunnoQ HoD wrote:
>
>> lets think of the word ''training''.  It can be used in the following
>> ways :
>>
>> 1. I'm training (verb)
>> 2. I must go for training (noun)
>>
>> is there a way,I could take take the word {qeq},put {-taH} at its end,
>> then take the {qeqtaH} and use it as a noun ?
>>
>
> You can say {qeqtaHghach} "continuous training." Or you can say
> {qeqta'ghach} "completed training." Or a bunch of other things, depending
> on the penultimate suffix.
>
> But {-ghach} usually shouldn't be your first choice; there's often a
> better way to say the thing you're looking for. For instance, {jIqeqnIS} "I
> need to train."
>
> Klingon uses verbs more centrally than English does. Where English uses
> weak or auxiliary verbs with strong nouns, Klingon often uses just verbs.
> See if you can find a verb-based solution first.
>
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