Consider breaking up the long English sentence into two shorter Klingon sentences. Here's some vocabulary and examples to play with: lo'Ha' waste (v) HoS lI' Dalo'Ha'chu' You are a total waste of good energy! PK lo'laHbe' be worthless (v) vIlo'laHbe' They are useless to me. I cannot use them. TKD leghlaHchu'be'chugh mIn lo'laHbe' taj jej A sharp knife is nothing without a sharp eye. TKW lo'laHbe'; chetvI' chIm rur worthless as an empty torpedo tube KGT lo'laHbe'ghach worthlessness (n) lI' be useful (v) Qu'vaD lI' net tu'bej One certainly finds it useful for the mission. One will certainly observe that it is useful to the mission. TKD Qu'vaD lI' De'vam This information is useful for the mission. TKD HoS lI' Dalo'Ha'chu' You are a total waste of good energy! PK lI' 'e' Datu' You will find it useful. PK lI'qu' tlhIngan may' taj The Klingon battle knife is designed primarily for versatility of use. SP2 bIDaqchu' 'ej jagh De' lI' DaSuq Intercept useful enemy information. MKE lI'be' be useless wa'maH yIHmey lI'be' ten useless tribbles CK __ Voragh On Behalf Of SuStel On 5/18/2017 6:28 AM, Rebecca Krause wrote: jIQochbe'. paghmeH tlhIngan Hol vIghojtaH vIneHbe'. If you see errors I would be happy to be corrected; I'm a learner... thank you What I was trying to say with each sentence was: "I agree. I don't want to be learning Klingon for nothing." -meH is a verb suffix; you can't put it on nouns. The English idiom for nothing isn't something you can translate quite so easily; you have to turn it into a non-idiomatic idea first. I'm thinking lI'be' tlhIngan Hol ghojtaHghachwIj vIneHbe' I don't want my ongoing learning of Klingon to be useless.