On 10/6/2020 9:38 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
{vaj} {meqvammo'} bopbogh vay''e' vIyajbe'.
vaj = so, then, thus, in that case meqvammo' = because of this reason
jIjatlh vIneH: "I was hungry so I ordered a pizza".
jIghungpu'; vaj pItSa' vIvunpu' jIghungpu'; meqvammo' pItSa' vIvunpu'.
chay' pIm cha' mu'tlheghvam ?
Before I get to the main point, your use of perfective here is incorrect. *jIghungpu'* describes the completed state of you being hungry. If your hunger were completed, you would not need to order pizza, because you would no longer be hungry. *jIghung; vaj pItSa' chab vIvunpu'. jIghungmo', pItSa' chab vIvunpu'.* These are the "standard" ways to say this. The use of *vaj* came with the first edition of /The Klingon Dictionary;/ the *-mo'* verb suffix came with the second edition. (I've sometimes wondered if there were no *-mo'* in the first edition because you could do the same thing with *vaj.*) *meqvammo'* does mean what you say it means, but it's not some formulaic way that Klingons have to show cause and effect. I think it's based on something you probably say habitually in Greek or English. The two sentences *vaj pItSa' chab vIvunpu'* and *meqvammo' chab vIvunpu'* differ only in that one employs an adverbial to show a logical link and one employs a subordinate clause. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name