On Feb 22, 2019, at 12:47, mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:

If I want to ask "why do I need to be there ?", what do I say ?

{qatlh pa' jIHnIS} or {qatlh pa' jIHnIStaH} ?

You can avoid the awkwardness of trying to shoehorn a pronoun into behaving like the verb “to be” by using a real verb like SaH or poQ:

qatlh pa' jISaHnIS?

qatlh pa' vIpoQlu'?