[tlhIngan Hol] how to express "look forward to"

[Daniel Dadap]

> On Apr 25, 2019, at 02:40, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My first thought was something along the lines of:
> {DaH rInpu'mo' DISqa'vI'rIy, Dach much vI[X]bogh}, where X = "anticipate, look forward to", but we don't seem to have such a verb.

My first thought is just to use {loS} for that. I’m pretty sure I’ve used it in the past for things like {much veb vIloSqu'}.

> {pIH} isn't quite right, I think. It works for a positive sense of anticipating or looking forward to something that will happen ({Such meb 'e' vIpIH}), but not in the negative sense of something which is missed ({Suchbe' meb 'e' vIpIH}).

But I don’t think the missing verb you’re looking for would need to work in that negative sense anyway. In your example sentence {Dach much vI[X]bogh} [X] is only talking about your positive anticipation. Neither {pIH} nor {loS} (maybe with a {-qu'} to express the degree of your anricipation) seem particularly ill-fitted to fit that [X] slot.