Can someone explain the difference between {nIteb jIH} and {jImob} ?

I *feel* there is a difference, but I can't seem to be able to wrap my mind around to what this difference actually is.

Ignoring the verb jIH monitor, I'm not convinced that nIteb jIH is a valid sentence. jIH is a pronoun, not a verb. It has certain verb-like qualities when it's being linked to a noun, but that doesn't make it a verb, and that's not happening here anyway. There is no noun in this mu'tlheghqoq.

People read the "to be" section of TKD and get the impression that pronouns act as verbs meaning "to be." This is incorrect. Klingon doesn't have any verb "to be." All you're doing when you say tlhIngan jIH is telling your listener that a particular pronoun will be used to refer to a particular noun: Me Klingon. What TKD is telling us about "to be" is that what English uses to express "to be" (a dedicated verb) is handled by pronouns in Klingon.

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