Translation help

[Pootmaster]

Hello
So I'm stuck with something I wanted to translate.... "[name] is my father". I thought maybe "vavwIj ghaH [name]" but I'm not 100% sure.... what do you think?
Thanks

[tesseraktik]

Well, it should be vavwI', rather than vavwIj, as your father is a creature capable of speech.  Apart from that, that's correct as far as I can tell.

Some thoughts:
I'm thinking that if my father is torgh, and he is a Klingon who is known to the one I'm addressing but his relation to me is not known, I'd probably use the construction vavwI' ghaH torgh
However, if somebody asks me "Who is your father?", so that my role is no longer to inform of an unknown relation between myself and a known Klingon, but rather to specify a Klingon with a certain relation to me, I'd probably say torgh ghaH vavwI''e'
I'm not sure if this is the common way to do things, however; perhaps somebody else will shine more light on this matter.

[Pootmaster]

That's great, thanks