[Tlhingan-hol] Expressing instrumentality

[mayqel qunenoS]

{vegh} means to go through an opening of some sort (open door, tunnel
etc) ; not even "go through" a forest.

your sentences could be expressed as :

because of hard work we succeeded / because we worked hard we succeeded
in order to build the table we used a hammer
because we negotiated we prevented war

the general advice would be, to try an substitute as many nouns as
possible, by using verbs. don't focus on trying to translate the exact
english words to klingon ; try rather expressing the meaning in
klingon.

mIv mop je Hurgh qunnoq

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 4:07 AM, Dillon, Kyle <kyledi at spu.edu> wrote:
> How does one express instrumentality in Klingon? That is, "through," "with,"
> or "by means of"? Examples:
>
> We succeeded through hard work.
> We built the table with a hammer.
> We prevented war by means of negotiation.
>
> I'm wondering if it may be some kind of subordinate clause with the verb
> vegh? Or do I just have to settle for the causative suffix -mo?
>
> -qayl
>
> Sent from my iPad
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