tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 31 10:57:56 1999
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RE: KLBC: Hol vI'lo 'e' vInID (jav)
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- Subject: RE: KLBC: Hol vI'lo 'e' vInID (jav)
- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 13:57:42 -0500 (EST)
Alan Anderson wrote:
>
> ja' tuv'el:
> > I have a question about {nIn Hoch} and {tera' vatlh DIS poH cha'maH wej
> > HochHom}. Isn't the word /Hoch/ supposed to be first in a noun-noun
> > construction? Shouldn't these be {Hoch nIn} and {HochHom tera'...}?
>
> That use of {Hoch} is apparently a special grammatical case, not a general
> noun-noun construction. When {Hoch} precedes a noun, it acts a lot like a
> number. {Hoch nIn} is "each fuel"; {nIn Hoch} is "all of the fuel". I've
> decided it's a distinction between a "count" usage and a "part" usage.
>
> -- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh
I don't know if this has been answered already but how does
one express "each" and "every" in Klingon?
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De'vID
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