<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr"><div></div>>Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 16:40:58 -0400<br></div><div id="ydpde449e36yahoo_quoted_1961645790" class="ydpde449e36yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div dir="ltr">>From: SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sustel@trimboli.name</a>><br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">>> 1. Is *parHa'* the best way to say "love", or could *muSHa'* also be used?<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>*muSHa'* is usually the word we use for /love. /*parHa'* means /like./<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Oh, all right. I sort of suspected this.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div>>The *law'/puS* (comparative, superlative) sentence can only be used with <br><div dir="ltr">>qualities. *parHa'* is an action, not a quality, so it can't be used in <br></div><div dir="ltr">>a superlative sentence like this.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thanks for making this clear. When I first saw all the grammatical phenomena that followed from adjectives becoming stative verbs in Klingon, I was impressed with the way -wI' could be added to mean "person/thing who/that is [adj.]". Like you could take the verb *nen* meaning "to be adult", and add -wI' to get *nenwI'*, "an adult". Or you could take *ven*, a verb meaning "to be nerdy", and add -wI' to get *venwI'*, a noun meaning "nerd". I guess the semantic difference between action verbs and stative verbs still manifests itself grammatically in some ways.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div>>Your first sentence is correct. (The pronoun *jIH* is optional here, and <br><div dir="ltr">>usually dropped, but it's not wrong to use it.) For your second <br></div><div dir="ltr">>sentence, maybe try using the verb *qaq* /be preferable./ With that <br></div><div dir="ltr">>verb, you don't even need a superlative sentence. If you want a <br></div><div dir="ltr">>superlative sentence, consider using *QaQ*/be good/ or *'ey*/be <br></div><div dir="ltr">>delicious./ Either way, to make it "my" favorite, you might need the <br></div><div dir="ltr">>word *jIHvaD* /for me./<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>I'll let you work it out from there.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thanks for leading me to *qaq*. I didn't think to look up the word "preferable".</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">How about:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">pItSa' chab vImuSHa'. jIHvaD qaq pItSa'!<br></div></div>
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