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Re: DCKL translation problems: {Sup}

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: DCKL translation problems: {Sup}
• Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:43:52 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
• References: <YVRNSNNJ496RM62VUTOQLBALVQ3XYV.400ace31@quvar><YVRNSNNJ496RM62VUTOQLBALVQ3XYV.400ace31@quvar>

Quvar:
> >     "resource" s. {Sup}; "resources" s. pl. {jo}
> >
> > is it acceptable to simply translate this to
> >     "Ressource" s. {Sup}; "Ressourcen" s. pl. {jo}
> > or does one prefer the "real" german word, "Hilfsquellen"?

Jens-Wolfhard:
>No, use "Ressource", maybe "Rohstoff", too...

As Quvar noted, {Sup} is the singular form only: "a/the resource".  The 
plural form is {jo} "resources".

It's another one of those noun sg./pl. pairs like {DoS}/{ray'} "target(s), 
{jengva'}/{ngup} "plate(s)", {peng}/{cha} "torpedo(es)", etc.



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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