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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.
It’s another day of chuvmey my friends, and today’s is a special one. It’s vaj. V, A, J. vaj means then, and is most classically seen as part of an if/then structure with the –chugh suffix. Of course, you can use it in other situations too.
bIbolchugh vaj qaHoH
if you drool, then I will kill you
lojmIt vItu’DI’ vaj jInargh
when I find the door, then I’ll escape
romuluSngan luSuvpa’ novpu’ Hagh vaj ‘uQ luSop
before the aliens fought the Romulan, they laughed, then they ate dinner
One might, you know, use this word to practice all sorts of combinations of events, one thing happening followed by another. It could take your practice to a whole new world, not simply stringing nouns and verbs into phrases, but stacking them up in sequence, first this occurs, and then that does. All sorts of possibilities are opening up for you now. qo’mey poSmoH Hol.
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In the last sentence, I think you want ghIq (“then”, “subsequently”); vaj means “then” as in “thus”.
vaj toDDujDaj ngeHbej DIvI’.
07.06.11 at 5:45 am