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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.
jISopchoH | I 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 vIyajchoH | Now I am beginning to understand Klingon |
tagha' berghchoH tlhIngan | Finally, 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' loDHom | The boy became a warrior. |
nom lom moj jagh | The enemy quickly became a corpse. |
jaghpu'chaj DImoj | We became their enemies |
'oSwI' Damoj rIntaH | You have become their representative / emissary |
pIn'a' Damoj DaneHchugh bIqeqnIStaH | To 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 novvetlh | That alien turned into a Klingon. |
Next, -qa' resume.
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