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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Ordinal numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SuStel)
Fri Nov 6 09:27:49 2015
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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 09:27:33 -0500
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On 11/6/2015 1:55 AM, Anthony Appleyard wrote:
> If /N/ is a number, /N/Dich means "Nth". Thus, {loD wejDich} means "the
> 3rd man". That puts /N/Dich in the place of an adjective. And a Klingon
> adjective is a special use of some intransitive verbs, e.g. {targh pI'}
> = the fat targ; {pI' targh} = the targ is fat. Does that allow e.g.
> {jIwejDich} = "I am 3rd", as if {wejDich} was fully an adjective?
No. In Klingon ordinals may modify nouns, but that doesn't make them
verbs. Klingon doesn't have adjectives; it only has verbs, nouns, or
leftovers that modify nouns.
wejDIch jIH
I am third
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