

SoH You are an officer.

puqpu' chaH They are children.


pa'wIjDaq jIHtaH I am in my quarters.



puqpu' chaH qama'pu"e' The prisoners are children.



Post TKD Information

I was finally able to specifically ask Dr. Okrand about it and he said when using a pronoun as "to be" construction to identify the location of something it is never against the rules to use -taH or not use -taH, but Maltz does tend to use -taH more often when he is talking about things that are pretty mobile and leave it off when he is talking about things that are immobile or almost never moved. It's a general tendency, not a rule. - Jeremy Cowan, qep'a' 2019