HoH

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Causing a living being to die and the act itself, with canon drawing sharp lines between killing, murder, execution, hunting, and honorable conduct.
Practice using HoH in conversation until it feels natural

Examples

  • pa' qaS HoH.
    A killing happens there.
  • HoHvam buS yaS.
    The officer focuses on this killing.
  • Ha'DIbaH DaSop 'e' DaHechbe'chugh yIHoHQo'.
    Do not kill an animal unless you intend to eat it.
  • HoHmey law' qel HoD.
    The captain considers many killings.
  • HoH leghpu' qama'.
    The prisoner saw the killing.

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Meanings

Kill or cause to die

verb
conflict
neutral
To cause a living being to die. This general transitive verb takes the victim as its object. More specific verbs include chot for murder, muH for execution, and ghab for a planned, successful kill during a hunt.

Usage

Use HoH for killing in general and choose the prefix from both killer and victim. Use chot, muH, or ghab when murder, execution, or a successful hunt is the point.

Examples

  • wa' yIHoH.
    Kill one of them!
  • bong yaS vIHoHpu'.
    I accidentally killed the officer.
  • bIjatlhHa'chugh qaHoH.
    If you say the wrong thing, I will kill you.
  • Ha'DIbaH DaSop 'e' DaHechbe'chugh yIHoHQo'.
    Do not kill an animal unless you intend to eat it.
  • quv Hutlh HoHbogh tlhIngan 'ach qabDaj 'angbe'bogh.
    A Klingon who kills without showing their face has no honor.

Common mistakes

The no-object prefix jI- is used even though HoH has a stated victim.
IncorrectCorrect
yaS jIHoH. yaS vIHoH.

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Killing

noun
conflict
neutral
An act of causing a living being to die. The Klingon Dictionary lists this noun, but a KLI survey of Okrandian examples found no attested sentence using the noun, unlike the very common verb.

Usage

Use the noun HoH for an act of killing when context clearly makes it a thing rather than an action. Its ordinary plural is HoHmey, not the suffix for beings capable of language.

Examples

  • HoH bop lut.
    The story is about a killing.
  • HoH leghpu' qama'.
    The prisoner saw the killing.
  • HoHmey law' qel HoD.
    The captain considers many killings.
  • HoHvam buS yaS.
    The officer focuses on this killing.
  • pa' qaS HoH.
    A killing happens there.

Common mistakes

The beings-capable-of-language plural -pu' is attached to the abstract noun instead of ordinary -mey.
IncorrectCorrect
HoHpu' law' qel HoD. HoHmey law' qel HoD.

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Usage

Grammar and context distinguish the common transitive verb from the rare noun. The victim precedes the verb, and the killer follows it when both are stated.

Common mistakes

yaS jIHoH gives a transitive verb a no-object prefix, while HoHpu' gives an abstract noun the plural for speaking beings.

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