[tlhIngan Hol] Asking "why do I need to be there ?"

[Daniel Dadap]

> On Feb 22, 2019, at 12:47, mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If I want to ask "why do I need to be there ?", what do I say ?
> 
> {qatlh pa' jIHnIS} or {qatlh pa' jIHnIStaH} ?

You can avoid the awkwardness of trying to shoehorn a pronoun into behaving like the verb “to be” by using a real verb like SaH or poQ:

qatlh pa' jISaHnIS?
qatlh pa' vIpoQlu'?
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