Get Well Soon

[Granite Brian]

Hello ,
 I am not from this quadrant and need to know how to say "Get well Soon" to a honorable Klingon Female.

Thank you for any help offered.

[SoplaHtaHwI']

I'm not that good at translating (yet), but, knowing Klingons, I think they will
not so much say "get well soon" as they would "stop being weak soon".

Going on that, it would become <yIpujtaHQo'>, which means "you! don't stay weak!"

But most likely someone will have a better way of saying it in tlhIngan Hol...

for now, that's my first thought and attempt.

 

[Kesvirit]

The term "weak", like "honor", is much overused, especially when another word would be closer to the speaker's intended meaning.

Though I am not a student of the tlhIngan Hol, I think one could stay with "May you be healthy soon" or "Soon may you be healthy". I myself would not phrase it formally or as an order, but would go with the latter if I were truly concerned for the afflicted one.

"Soon may you be healthy."

{tugh bIpIvjaj}

tugh -- soon (adv; beg. of sentence. See TKD 5.4, Adverbials)
bI-  -- you (verb prefix)
pIv -- v. to be healthy
-jaj -- may

({jaj} can go one of  two ways. See Teresh's Grammar Addenda, section 4.2.9 Syntactic Markers for more information.)

-=- Kesvirit

[Klythe]

Despite my usual fondness for turning most terran wishes into imperatives, I have never been a fan of "Get well soon", as it is obvious that the one does not wish to be unwell and is trying as best they can to end that condition.

     In this case it doesn't look like formal toast grammar affects sentence since there is no object, and the subjecct is expressed by a prefix.   I would favour Kesvirit's translation.

[K'Tar KorDaS]

As you may all know to a Klingon there is a great deal of disgrace attached to being incapacitated, however briefly, and a general distrust of medicine.

"Klingons do not get sink."
"ropchoHbe' tlhInganpu'."

Klingons value being in control, so having the need for medical intervention is a sign not only of weakness but of spirital weakness.

So try using...

"To undestand life, endure pain."
"yIn DayajmeH 'oy' yISIQ."

Enduring physical suffering is considered a spiritual test. So I beleave this quote is the closest thing to the Human "Get well soon."

[Klythe]

Immmpressive.  That is a good one.

[K'Tar KorDaS]

No problem, anytime, just glad to help.

[ngabwI]

I myself would not phrase it formally or as an order, but would go with the latter if I were truly concerned for the afflicted one.

"Soon may you be healthy."

{tugh bIpIvjaj}

It's been awhile since I've been to the forums, and I happened to stop in today.

Like Klythe, my first instinct is to turn this into an imperative:

{yIpIvqa'!} "Be healthy again!"

Since the original English is also voiced as an imperative, this might be your best option for a literal translation.

BUT...

Kesv's suggestion of {tugh bIpIvjaj} "May you be healthy soon", to me, is much closer to the feeling of the English, and the only suggestion I can make would be to slap a {-qa'} onto the verb:

{tugh bIpIvqa'jaj} "May you be healthy again soon"

And, like Forrest, that's all I have to say about that...

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