2013-07-31

Type 3 Suffixes: -choH

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We've covered a number of different types of suffixes - all of the Type 2 suffixes, the type 4 causative suffix, the type 5 suffixes, the aspect marker type 7 suffixes and some of the type 9 syntactic markers.

Before moving on to the noun suffixes, we will now go through the rest of the non-rover, fixed regular suffixes, starting with the two Type 3 suffixes marking change; -choH change of state, change of direction and -qa' resume.

-choH change of state, change of direction

This verb suffix signals that a change of state has occurred. Often inaccurately described only as beginning, -choH can also signal the end of a thing; endings and destruction are changes, too. Another way of describing this change of state is by using some version of becoming.

jISopchoHI start to eat
ghorgh tlhIngan Soj neH SopchoHtaH qama'When did the prisoner start eating only Klingon food?
pay' tlhInganpu' SuvchoH jaghma'Suddenly, our enemy attacked the Klingons/
(where prior to this, they had been attacking us)
DaH tlhIngan Hol vIyajchoHNow I am beginning to understand Klingon
tagha' berghchoH tlhInganFinally, the Klingon became irritable

"Becoming" As Verb

When expressing becoming where the destination is a noun, rather than a change in state or quality, you use the Klingon verb moj become instead.

SuvwI' mojta' loDHomThe boy became a warrior.
nom lom moj jaghThe enemy quickly became a corpse.
jaghpu'chaj DImojWe became their enemies
'oSwI' Damoj rIntaHYou have become their representative / emissary
pIn'a' Damoj DaneHchugh bIqeqnIStaHTo become a master, you've gotta keep practicing.

moj can even take the Type 3 suffix -choH; the implication is that, in a change of state, the subject became something else - for instance, shapeshifting:-

tlhIngan SuvwI' mojchoH novvetlhThat alien turned into a Klingon.

Next, -qa' resume.

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