A Quick Reference to Locations in Klingon.
In English places are indicated with adverbs and/or prepositions, this
is not the case in Klingon however (which totaly lacks prepositions). To
express locative concepts in Klingon one mostly make use of one of the
following Type 5 noun suffixes:
| Daq | locative (n) | [TKD pp. 27] |
| vo' | from (n) | [TKD pp. 28] |
Daq is used to express that something takes place in the
vicinity of, inside, or in the direction towards a noun. While vo'
indicates that something is going in the direction away from the noun.
Examples:
| juHwIjDaq jIHtaH | I'm at my home. |
| DujwIjDaq jIHtaH | I'm in my ship. |
| juHwIjDaq jIjaH | I'm going to my home. |
| juHwIjvo' jIjaH | I'm going away from my home. |
Klingon uses nouns to express more complex spatial relationships (these
words are adverbs in English) this means that for example the word
Dat should be interpreted as something like the everwhere
place or all places. And a phase like Dat qalegh (meaning
I see you everywhere) is literally I see you in all places. Likewise
poSwIjDaq qalegh (meaning I see you to my left) is literally
I see you in my left area.
| Dat |
| everywhere, all places | (n) |
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| naDev |
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| pa' |
| there, over there, thereabouts | (n) |
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| These nouns never take the Daq suffix. [TKD
pp. 27-28] |
| vogh | somewhere (n) | [TKD] |
| nIH | right (side) (n) | [TKD] |
| poS | left (side) (n) | [TKD] |
| tlhop | front, area in front of (n) | [KGT] |
| 'em | behind, area behind (n) | [KGT] |
| Dung | area above, area overhead (n) | [TKD] |
| bIng | area below, area under (n) | [TKD] |
| retlh | area beside, area next to (n) | [TKD] |
| joj | area between (n) | [KGT] |
| qoD | inside, interior (n) | [KGT] |
| Hur | outside (n) | [TKD] |
| yoy | be upside down (v) | [TKD] |
| ngaS | contain (have inside) (v) | [TKD] |
| Sum | be near, be nearby (v) | [KGT] |
| Hop | be remote, be far (v) | [TKD] |
| tIn | be big (v) | [TKD] |
| mach | be small (v) | [TKD] |
| tIq | be long, lengthy (of an object) (v) | [TKD] |
| run | be short (in stature) (v) | [KGT] |