tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 16 16:58:57 2004

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RE: New vocabulary and {law'/puS} variants (HQ 13.1)

Steven Boozer ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

Voragh:
> >  jav 'uj lu'ab tlhIngan tera'ngan je
> >  the Klingon and the Terran are six ujs tall

QeS lagh:
>So do nouns become grammatically singular when numbers are used? I thought
>that there was just no need for an explicit number suffix, but that {'uj}
>was still treated as plural.

No, they don't.  Since plural suffixes are always optional, {jav 'uj} is 
the equivalent of {jav 'ujmey}.  I was focusing on the plural subject 
{tlhIngan tera'ngan je} and ignored the plural object.  Since I prefer not 
to use plural suffixes after numbers, I made a beginner's error and read 
{'uj} as singular and incorrectly added the prefix {lu-} "they [do 
something] to it".

>I would have expected {jav 'uj 'ab tlhIngan tera'ngan je}, with {'ab} as
>3rd person plural subject and 3rd person plural object.

You're right, of course.

HIvqa' veqlargh!



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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