I'd probably go with {tu'lu'be'}; it covers both the sense of "does not exist" (if it hasn't been entered) and "isn't found" (in case the program just can't identify it properly). //loghaD ________________________________________ From: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org> on behalf of Lieven L. Litaer <levinius@gmx.de> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 08:29 To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org Subject: [tlhIngan Hol] be missing / not there I'm not sure I'm missing something, but I can't find an adequate solution to translate an error message like "name missing". I know that {Hutlh} takes an object, so I may say {pong Hutlh yu'muD} I thought of {Dach}, but can an information "be absent"? It sounds like a people thing to me, but I may be wrong. Next, I think of {loj} "be all gone", a verb I have never understood how to use. If I use {ngab} "disappear", it implies that something was there before, which is not the case either. The only way I can solve this is rephrasing {pong DalIj}, so my problem is basically solved, but I still like to her your opinion about the first questions. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.klingonisch.de http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/StarTrekPicard _______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org