On 6/13/2019 7:15 PM, Daniel Dadap wrote:

On Jun 13, 2019, at 08:59, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:

DaqvamDaq yIghoS (commanding multiple people)

… poD vay' …

Meanwhile, DaqvamDaq peghoS would mean that while you are in this place, you should go somewhere.


Thanks. That matched my understanding.

I’ve seen “locative” used for {-Daq} before but until your recent message I don’t think I’ve seen “ablative” for {-vo'}. Is this a common convention, or just something that you use personally? Could {-vaD} be described as “dative”, using this same alien grammatical terminology? Maybe causal for {-mo'}?

Most people don't say ablative, but it fits, is convenient, and corresponds to locative. -vaD isn't dative because it's also benefactive. You could use dative or benefactive when describing a sentence that clearly has one or the other of these senses, but they're not separate noun cases in Klingon. Unless there is a noun case out there that combines these two, dative/benefactive is the best you're going to get. Causal works for -mo', but I prefer causative, simply because it fits in with the others.

These are just words to describe Klingon, not inherent properties of the language.
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