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

There are also homophonous pairs like {SaH} (where it likely means "be present" without an object and "to care about" the object when there is one) but I think those cases are really pairs of verbs which happen to sound the same.

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