tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Apr 29 11:24:32 1995
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Re: pagh (was latlh)
Sat, 29 Apr 1995, ghItlh jansIy:
> On Fri, 28 Apr 1995, yoDtargh wrote:
> So, what I get from this whole discussion is:
>
> pagh no' - no ancestors
> no' pagh - none of the ancestors
> no'lI' pagh - none of your ancestors
> pagh no'lI' - your (theoretical, but non-existant) ancestors
Numbers are handled somewhat diffently than nouns. Numbers indicate
quantity when placed before a noun. They are used to number the object
when placed after a noun.
wa' QumwI' one communicator
QumwI' wa' communicator number one
wa' QumwI'wIj my one communicator
QumwI'wIj wa' my communicator number one
wa' one of them
I would not use {QumwI'wIj wa'} to say "one of my communicators". For
that I would just say {wa'}. E.g.
cha' QumwI' vIghaj. DaHjaj wa' vIghor.
(I have two communicators. Today I broke one of them.)
> janSIy
yoDtargh