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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/6/2020 9:38 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">{vaj} {meqvammo'} bopbogh vay''e' vIyajbe'.
vaj = so, then, thus, in that case
meqvammo' = because of this reason
jIjatlh vIneH: "I was hungry so I ordered a pizza".
jIghungpu'; vaj pItSa' vIvunpu'
jIghungpu'; meqvammo' pItSa' vIvunpu'.
chay' pIm cha' mu'tlheghvam ?</pre>
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<p>Before I get to the main point, your use of perfective here is
incorrect. <b>jIghungpu'</b> describes the completed state of you
being hungry. If your hunger were completed, you would not need to
order pizza, because you would no longer be hungry.</p>
<p><b>jIghung; vaj pItSa' chab vIvunpu'.<br>
jIghungmo', pItSa' chab vIvunpu'.</b></p>
<p>These are the "standard" ways to say this. The use of <b>vaj</b>
came with the first edition of <i>The Klingon Dictionary;</i> the
<b>-mo'</b> verb suffix came with the second edition. (I've
sometimes wondered if there were no <b>-mo'</b> in the first
edition because you could do the same thing with <b>vaj.</b>)</p>
<p><b>meqvammo'</b> does mean what you say it means, but it's not
some formulaic way that Klingons have to show cause and effect. I
think it's based on something you probably say habitually in Greek
or English.</p>
<p>The two sentences <b>vaj pItSa' chab vIvunpu'</b> and <b>meqvammo'
chab vIvunpu'</b> differ only in that one employs an adverbial
to show a logical link and one employs a subordinate clause.<br>
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