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« on: 05 30, 2010, 04:00: AM »

Hi!

I´m doing a small schoolessay, and I´m searching for the Klingon word for "namely".

Can anyone help? Smiley

/Kristin
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« Reply #1 on: 05 30, 2010, 09:26: AM »

If it's a direct translation you're after, I'm afraid you won't find one; tlhIngan Hol { the Klingon language } is very different from English, and so there is no one-to-one correspondence between words or phrases.

The closest equivalent I can think of is the noun suffix -'e', which is used to emphasize nouns.  For instance:

la' HoHlu'ta''a'. Was the commander killed?
HIja'. HoHta' romuluSngan'e'. - Yes!  A ROMULAN killed him.

la' - noun commander
HoH - verb to kill
-lu' - verb suffix indicating that the subject of this predicate is unknown/unspecified, and in this case also that the object is singular
-ta' - verb suffix indicates tha the sentence is in the past tense, and that the action was deliberate
-'a' - verb suffix indicating that the sentence is a question

HIja' - interjection "Yes!"
HoHta' - predicate "the subject deliberately killed the object"
romuluSngan - noun Romulan
-'e' - noun suffix emphasis

...or, for that matter:

vay' HoHta''a' romuluSngan. - Did the Romulans kill anybody?
HIja'. la''e' HoHta'. - Yes!  The Romulans killed THE COMMANDER.
(notice that the -'e' is now affixed to la', the commander, as opposed to romuluSngan, the Romulan)

In both of these sentences, the -'e' suffix is used to specify something which was previously unspecified, which is also how the word 'namely' is often used.

Hope that helps!
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« Reply #2 on: 06 01, 2010, 11:38: PM »

One typically must translate entire sentences, or at least phrases, in order to get the proper idea across. Individual words without a surrounding context do not usually respond well to attempts at translation.

So what do you want to say, and what do you want to express by the word "namely"?
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