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Hello, and welcome. You’re listening to DaHjaj Hol, your daily dose of Klingon language.
I’m your host, Lawrence Schoen and today is Tuesday, February 1st, 2011. If you’ve been listening to this podcast from the beginning, congratulations, you’ve completed a month of Klingon. Let’s celebrate with some nouns.
loD is man or male. L, O, Capital D, loD
be’ is woman or female. B, E, Apostrophe. be’
puq is child or offspring. P, U, Lowercase Q. puq
puqloD is son. puqloD
puqbe’ is daughter. puqbe’
the word for father is vav. V, A, V. vav
the word for mother is SoS. Capital S, O, Capital S. SoS
loDnI’ is brother. L, O, Capital D, N, Capital I, Apostrophe. loDnI’
be’nI’ is sister. B, E, Apostrophe, N, Capital I, Apostrophe. be’nI’
vavnI’ is grandfather. vavnI’
SoSnI’ is grandmother. SoSnI’
That should keep you busy for a bit.
But wait, let’s do something new, something grammatical, with these nouns. In Klingon, when you have two nouns – let’s call them N1 and N2 – and you want to say one belongs to another, such as N1’s N2 you simply position them next to one another in that order. Here are some examples:
vav puqloD
the father’s son
SoSnI’ puq
the grandmother’s child
The Noun-Noun construction can act as the subject or object of a sentence, just as any single Noun has in the past. Let’s try this with a few sentences:
tugh HoHqa’ be’nI’lI’ betleH
soon sister’s bat’lath will kill again
reH SoSnI’lI’ vav rur puqloDlI’
your son always resembles your grandmother’s father
romuluSngan DevwI’ HoHrupnIS chechwI’ SoSnI’
the drunkard’s grandmother needs to be ready to fight the Romulan’s guide
You should immediately see how much this expands what you can say in Klingon, just with the vocabulary you already possess. You might want to start trying out different Noun-Noun pairings, as the subjects and objects of other verbs, building more and more complex sentences. And why not? This is precisely the way that qo’mey poSmoH Hol, Language Opens Worlds.
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