Klingon Adjectives

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Adjectives (words that describe nouns, like big, happy, slow, hot) don't exist in Klingon. Instead they are replaced by verbs (be big, be happy, etc). Verbs like these -I call them adjective-verbs - can be used immediately after a noun in order to describe it.

vaj yoH Brave warrior
vaj Warrior
yoH be brave

vengmey tIn the big cities
vengmey cities
tIn be big

The verb rover -qu' (emphatic) can be used with adjective-verbs. Usually, it is translated as "very"
tuq mach Small house

tuq machqu' Very small house
tuq house

mach be small

Last thing. The Type 5 Noun suffixes (Daq in, vo' from, etc) can be added to the adjective-verb.

tug machDaq In the small house

tug machqu'Daq In the very small house

And that concludes the Adjectives page

-Nero (yInjaj Holmaj!)

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Source:
Okrand, Marc. 1992. The Klingon Dictionary. New York: Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster Inc.

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