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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">ghItlh mayqel qunenoS:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">>> DaH qep'a' ve'meH bonablaH.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:17.12px">>If the {ve'} as a verb of movement follows the same rules with {jaH}, and the sentence refers to a single person, then..</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 17.12px;">>shouldn't this be {DaH qep'a'Daq Dave'meH bInablaH} or {DaH qep'a' Da'vemeH bInablaH} ?</span><br>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 17.12px;">Since the {bo-} prefix is used on the main verb, the sentence is not referring to a single person. To be safe, this should
be, {DaH qep'a'Daq bove'meH bonablaH}. The {-Daq} is actually optional and should not be a point of contention or argument.<br>
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I believe that there are examples of {-meH} on a verb which does not appear to have a prefix and where a null prefix does not seem to make sense<span style="font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17.12px;">. It seems that {-meH} might
actually be able to take a rare infinitive</span>. I'm not very good a tracking canon examples, so I would love it if anyone could share a couple of them. But now that I'm examining it more closely, I'll bet none of those examples also have a object on the
{-meH} verb. I probably took too many liberties in this translation.</span></font></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">> pa' SoHtaH pagh meyrI' SoHtaH!</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:large">"there you are or a square you are being" ?</span><br>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font size="4" style=""><font face="calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I see be''etlh has given you the English idiom. Without knowing the English idiom, I would probably translate the Klingon as, "Either
you are there or you are a square." I was being silly and did knew that it was a nonsense thing to say in Klingon. I also knew the majority (but not all) of Klingon speakers would get the reference.</font></font></p>
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