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Re: KLBC: nuqDaq QuvwIj Datu'pu'

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: KLBC: nuqDaq QuvwIj Datu'pu'
• Date: Sat, 9 Aug 97 04:52:28 UT

On Stardate 97601.8 muHwI' wrote:

> I got some mail from somebody I do not know.
> nuvvo' vISovbe' jabbI'ID vIHevpu'.

"Somebody [whom] I do not know" is a relative clause in Klingon.  {vay' 
vISovbe'bogh}.

vay' vISovbe'bogh jabbI'ID vIHevpu'.

> Now I want to ask him where he got my address from.
> nuqDaq QuvwIj Datu'pu'? 'e' DaH vItlhob vIneH

{tlhob} is a verb of saying, and as such, does not use {'e'} (TKD 6.2.5).

<nuqDaq QuvwIj Datu'?> DaH vItlhob vIneH.

I don't know . . . I don't really see {-pu'} on {tu'} here as very useful.

> I'll use {Quv} for address:
> 
>      nuqDaq QuvwIj Datu'pu' ?
> 
> Is that correct?
> lugh'a'? or qar'a'?  (?)

Either one is probably okay.

-- 
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
Stardate 97604.9

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