<p dir="ltr">the reason which makes me daily inflict on this list, every possible subject I am able to think of, is because I'm hoping through writing klingon to discover areas of grammar that continue to elude me..</p>
<p dir="ltr">yesterday, this goal was achieved when at another thread the following sentence was written:</p>
<p dir="ltr">SuStel:<br>
> <b>qo'vam'e' yInvam'e' je jIH mubechmoH bIH</b><br>
> <i>as for this world and life, they make me suffer</i></p>
<p dir="ltr">at first I wasn't able to understand it, but as soon as I read SuStel's explanation (and realized what's going on), I was shocked to realize how ignorant I was with regards to the true nature of {'e'}.</p>
<p dir="ltr">So, I want to discuss this further..</p>
<p dir="ltr">pelaD !</p>
<p dir="ltr">So far, I knew that nouns carrying a type-5 suffix are always placed at the beginning of the sentence. Words carrying the {-vaD}, {-Daq}, {-vo'}, {-mo'}.. And I could certainly understand the reason. But I never had considered a noun carrrying the {-'e'}, being put at the start..</p>
<p dir="ltr">In fact, until yesterday, the only uses of the {'e'} I was aware of were:</p>
<p dir="ltr">1. to emphasize a noun, regardless its position in the sentence.<br>
2. to clarify in a sentence with the {-bogh} who does what to whom.<br>
3. its role in nouns which would follow the {'oH} and the {ghaH}.</p>
<p dir="ltr">So far so good..</p>
<p dir="ltr">but when I read SuStel's sentence, my world came upside down. lets read it again:</p>
<p dir="ltr">SuStel:<br>
> <b>qo'vam'e' yInvam'e' je jIH mubechmoH bIH</b><br>
> <i>as for this world and life, they make me suffer</i></p>
<p dir="ltr">I began to ask myself: what's happening here ? we have nouns put at the beginning of the sentence carrying the {'e'}, and as a result obtaing the translation "as for the (noun)..". And as a result of this translation, the rest of the sentence starts to revolve around this/these nouns.</p>
<p dir="ltr">So, if my understanding of this use of {'e'} is correct, I can write:</p>
<p dir="ltr">SoSlI''e' vIghro'lIj HoHta'<br>
as for your mother, she killed your cat</p>
<p dir="ltr">vIghro''e' bo'DeghDaj Sopta'<br>
as for the cat, it ate his bird</p>
<p dir="ltr">SoH'e', verengan Ha'DIbaH SoH.<br>
as for you, you're a ferengi dog.</p>
<p dir="ltr">So, I would like to ask:</p>
<p dir="ltr">SuStel (or anyone else), are the above sentences correct ? is my understanding of this use of {'e'} correct ?</p>
<p dir="ltr">because if it is, oh if it is ! I will explode from happiness having discovered something entirely new, which I've been ignoring during my entire klingon life ! (as short yet fruitful as it may be..) hehehe</p>
<p dir="ltr">qunnoH jan puqloD<br>
ghoghwIj HablI'vo' vIngeHta'</p>