The basic sentence structure is O-V-S. Adverbials typically occur at the beginning of a sentence; this includes phrases describing the reason (noun or clause with {-mo'}) or location (noun with {-Daq}) of an action. It may be easiest to identify the verb in a sentence first, then any adverbials and sentence conjunctions that may be present; the remainder, in a simple sentence, will be object (before the verb) and/or subject (after the verb).Verbs are marked with a prefix indicating both the subject and the object (a special case is the null prefix, which indicates 3rd person subject and 3rd person object except for the combination plural subject and singular object).
Adjectives come after the noun they modify. Nouns can modify one another in the sequence possessor-possessed (e.g. {puq} = child; {juH} = home; {puq juH} = the child's home / a child's home / a home of the child / the home of a child); any of the nouns in such a noun-noun construction may also be followed by adjectives or suffixes. There are no definite or indefinite articles.
Sentences are transformed into relative clauses by adding {-bogh} to the verb; the head noun of this clause can be either the subject or the object of the original sentence. If desired, the head noun can be marked explicitly with the noun suffix {-'e'}. (See also the glossary under {'e'}.)
Locative phrases deserve a bit of explanation: instead of prepositions, Klingon uses noun-noun constructions with the {-Daq} locative suffix on the secound noun. For example, from {raS} "table", {yor} "exterior top", and {Dung} "area above", we get {raS yorDaq} "at the table's exterior top = on top of the table" and {raS DungDaq} "at the table's area-above = over the table, above the table".