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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Pluralizing inherently plural nouns

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Wed Aug 16 09:46:15 2017

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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:46:22 +0200
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Am 16.08.2017 um 15:39 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
> If have an inherently plural noun, e.g. {ray'} for "targets", and we 
> want to express "many targets", then what do we say ?
> 
> {ray'mey}

Pluralizing aplural noun is like saying "targetses" or "mens".

> or {ray' law'} ?

This can never be wrong; it follows grammar perfectly.


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