Happy Birthday General Chang!!

[soup_borg]

On my Star Trek mailing list some one asked how to say "Happy Birthday, General Chang!" in his native tounge.  One member came up with this,

Cha General Chang Toh'gan-nah lo Pre-tOk,
Cha General Chang Toh'gan-nah lo Pre-tOk,
Cha General Chang Toh'gan-nah lo Pre-tOk,
Tu Mak Dagh Cha doh Borak.

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While my contribution was,

qoS bIQuch chang Sa'!!

qoS = birthday (n)
bI (verb prefix) = you
Quch = happy, be happy (v)
Sa' = General (rank)

I'm guessing the first one is a different dialect of tlhIngan Hol...but what do I know?  I probably got my translation wrong.

[Jon]

Interestingly, Klingon for the Galactic Traveler (p.52) translates "General Chang" as "cheng Sa'" (that is with an e instead of an a). I don't know why.

I understand "bIQuch" to mean "You are happy.". Quch cannot take an object (such as birthday).

The KLI translates "Happy birthday" as "qoSlIj DatIvjaj" literally "May you enjoy your birthday".

Which I think works here too:
   cheng Sa', qoSlIj DatIvjaj.
or   
   General Chang, may you enjoy your birthday.

[soup_borg]

At leas I got Sa' right.  I was sure that "Chang" wouldn't be the same in Klingon.