[tlhIngan Hol] paq'batlh mu'tlhegh

[mayqel qunenoS]

De'vID:
> {naDev ghaHtaH} means "he/she is here".

Yes, I can understand this; but if at the above sentence we had the
{-bogh} ({naDev ghaHtaHbogh}), then what would that mean ?

My difficulty in understanding the original paq'batlh sentence,
had/has to do with accepting the {naDev jIHtaHbogh} as a noun.

If that sentence went: {DaH naDev jIHtaH meq Saja'}, then I could read
it as "now, the reason of my being here, I will tell you". But the
addition of {-bogh} severely messes me up. It is its presence that I
can't explain.

qunnoH jan puqloD

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 12:51 AM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 17, 2016 09:24, "mayqel qunenoS" <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> De'vID:
>
>> {naDev jIHtaHbogh} is a noun.
>
> I can't understand how this could be correct as a {-bogh}ed noun.
>
> I know we can say {paq qanobta'bogh} for "the book which I gave you". but
> here the {paq} is the object of {nob}.
>
> On the {naDev jIHtaHbogh} is the {naDev} an object ? and if yes, the object
> of what verb ? the object of {jIH} ? I can understand the {jIH} taking an
> object in the context of {SuvwI' jIH}. but then, the {naDev jIHtaH} would
> mean "I am here" not in the sense "I am present here", but in the sense "I
> am the here".
>
> The SkyBox {Qo'noS} card has the following sentence:
> {pa’ ’oH­taH vaS­’a’ ’e’.}
> "This is where the Klingon Great Hall is located"
>
> That no more means "the Great Hall is 'the there'" than {naDev jIHtaH} means
> "I am 'the here'."
>
> The suffix {-taH} indicates an ongoing activity, and "being at a location"
> is apparently considered a type of ongoing activity.
>
> See also KGT p.25:
> {tera'ngan ghaH qama''e'} "The prisoner is a Terran"
> {bIghHa'Daq ghaHtaH qama''e'} "The prisoner is in the prison"
>
> Even though that sentence has a {-Daq}ed noun, the structure is essentially
> the same. {bIghHa'Daq ghaHtaH} means "he/she is in prison", and {naDev
> ghaHtaH} means "he/she is here".
>
> --
> De'vID
>
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