On 5/6/2020 11:29 AM, Will Martin wrote:
The thing to add to this that hasn’t been mentioned yet is that {-meH} clauses, especially when they modify nouns, are the closest thing Klingon has to an infinitive form of the verb. [...] Also, for {ja’chuqmeH rojHom}, the {-chuq} is not so much to functioning to imply a plural subject for {ja’} as it is to make {ja’} have the meaning “discuss, confer” instead of “tell”.
This is quite right. It's actually a lesson that can be generalized: in a sentence like *wo'rIvvaD quHDaj qawmoH Ha'quj,* the *-moH* is not so much functioning to rewrite the syntax of the entire sentence as it is to make *qaw* mean /remind/ instead of /remember/. *qawmoH* is the Klingon word for /remind,/ even if its grammar is different than English /remind./ -- SuStel http://trimboli.name