tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 06 14:05:14 2000
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RE: KLBC: Hol vI'lo 'e' vInID (jav)
jIja'pu':
>A general-purpose partitive "of" seems to be missing from Klingon grammar.
>...{nIn Hoch} "all the fuel"
>...{tera' vatlh DIS poH cha'maH wej HochHom} "most of the 23rd Century"
ja' Holtej:
>There're also two examples in TKD, p. 54:
>
> mulegh cha'
> "Two (of them) see me."
>
> wa' yIHoH
> "Kill one (of them)!"
Neither of those examples seem extensible to anything in particular.
They indicate only that numbers used as nouns can be interpreted as
subsets of something unstated. I suppose they could be generalized
by adding an explanatory sentence:
raSDaq bIQ balmey vIlanta'. nIjtaH wa'.
"One of the bottles I put on the table is leaking."
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh