<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 September 2017 at 19:38, SuStel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" target="_blank">sustel@trimboli.name</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="gmail-m_5381979635292971946moz-cite-prefix">Whatever the verb is, we've got a few of them in Klingon.<br></div></span>
<p><b>tagh</b></p>
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<p><b>taghbej mu'qaDveS<br>
</b><i>Curse warfare has definitely begun. </i>(CK)</p>
<b>Qu' DataghDI' 'aqtu' mellota' je tIqaw</b><i><br>
When you begin a mission, remember Aktuh and Melota. </i>(TKW)</blockquote>
<p><b>mev</b></p>
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<p><b>not mev peghmey<br>
</b><i>Secrets never cease. </i>(PK)</p>
<p><b>bIjatlh 'e' yImev<br>
</b><i>Shut up!</i> (PK)</p>
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<p><b>meQ</b></p>
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<p><b>Ha'DIbaHmey meQ Sop 'e' tIv tera'nganpu'<br>
</b><i>Terrans enjoy eating burnt animals.</i> (CK, but notice
the missing <b>lu-</b> on <b>tIv</b>)</p>
<p><b>to'waQ meQ vutwI'<br>
</b><i>The cook burns the tendon.</i> (KGT)</p>
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<p>And you've noticed <b>pegh.</b> There may be others I can't
remember right now. There are also a lot of verbs whose
transitivity we don't know, like <b>DIng</b> <i>spin </i>and <b>chagh</b><i>
drop.</i></p></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra">Some other verbs of this type (where the presence or absence of an object changes the role of the subject) that I know of are:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">{Don} v. be parallel, go parallel to</div><div class="gmail_extra">{ghom} v. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">meet, encounter, assemble, rendezvous</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">{So'} v. hide, cloak</span></div><div><br></div><div>There are also homophonous pairs like {SaH} (where it likely means "be present" without an object and "to care about" the object when there is one) but I think those cases are really pairs of verbs which happen to sound the same.</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div>
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