tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 20 13:30:59 2003
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Re: Klingon WOTD: 'ar (ques)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, January 19, 2003.
>
>Klingon word: 'ar
>Part of Speech: question word
>Definition: how many? how much?
>
>Canon:
>TKD Useful Expressions
> Dochvetlh DIlmeH Huch 'ar DaneH
> How much do you want for that?
{'ar} "how many? how much?" follows the noun to which it refers. It can
never follow a noun with a plural suffix. [TKD, 70]
More examples from canon:
Haw'pu' yaS 'ar
How many officers fled? TKD
nIn 'ar wIghaj
How much fuel do we have?" (TKD, 70)
How much fuel do we have left? [PK & TKD's "Useful Expressions"]
nIn 'ar ghaj?
[clipped] PK
Huch 'ar DaneH
How much money do you want? TKD
mughoS 'avwI' 'ar
How many guards are coming? CK
Interestingly, {'ar} can combine with {-logh} -- {'arlogh} "how many times?":
'arlogh wab Qoylu'pu'?
How many times has someone heard the sound?
How many times has the sound been heard?
which is an idiomatic expression for asking the time [st.klingon 2/99].
--
Voragh "Damage control is easy. Reading Klingon
- that's
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons hard!" (Montgomery
Scott, STIV)