On 28 September 2017 at 19:38, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:

Whatever the verb is, we've got a few of them in Klingon.

tagh

taghbej mu'qaDveS
Curse warfare has definitely begun. (CK)

Qu' DataghDI' 'aqtu' mellota' je tIqaw
When you begin a mission, remember Aktuh and Melota. (TKW)

mev

not mev peghmey
Secrets never cease. (PK)

bIjatlh 'e' yImev
Shut up! (PK)

meQ

Ha'DIbaHmey meQ Sop 'e' tIv tera'nganpu'
Terrans enjoy eating burnt animals. (CK, but notice the missing lu- on tIv)

to'waQ meQ vutwI'
The cook burns the tendon. (KGT)

And you've noticed pegh. There may be others I can't remember right now. There are also a lot of verbs whose transitivity we don't know, like DIng spin and chagh drop.

Some other verbs of this type (where the presence or absence of an object changes the role of the subject) that I know of are:

{Don} v. be parallel, go parallel to

{ghom} v. meet, encounter, assemble, rendezvous

{So'} v. hide, cloak

And it's no coincidence that the ones that do it in Klingon are also the ones that do it in their English definitions...

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SuStel
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