[tlhIngan Hol] Expressing age

[mayqel qunenoS]

ok, thanks ;

but here's the stupid question of the day, which is more a question on
ordinals than a question on age..

if I want to say :

"While I was a thousand and a hundred and twenty seven years old
(1127)", then how would I say it ?

Perhaps :

{qaStaHvIS DISwIj wa'SaD wa'vatlh cha'maH SochDIch} ?

I mean the {-DIch} must always occur at the last word of a complex
number, right ?

lur Hurgh



On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Lieven <levinius at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 25.07.2016 um 11:56 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
>>
>> Was there anything else said at that qepHom'a', with regards to the
>> "expressing age" subject ?
>
>
> I was planning to add this to the website, but seems like I forgot. I'll add
> that when I get the time. Here's the entire page 15:
>
> -------------------
> LL: We know that loSmaH ben jIboghpu’ is how a Klingon would say "I am 40
> (years old)". But how would you say "when I was X, I did such and such"?
>
> MO: Maltz says:
> qaStaHvIS DISwIj javDIch…
> When I was six years old…
>
> MO: This is a confusing one, because it depends on how you count age. So I'm
> thinking for klingons, from the time you're born, until you're one year old,
> that's your zeroth year. So in terms of numbers, it matches the way we do it
> in english.
>
> wa’maH ben loDnI’wI’
> My 10-year-old brother
>
> LL: In The Klingon Dictionary, ben was translated only as "years ago".
> Later, on the tape Power Klingon, it was used in the phrase cha’vatlh ben
> HIq "two century old ale", which confused lots of klingonists.
>
> MO: That's right, but this follows the same pattern, so it's clear you can
> use it for both meanings.
>
> Comparatives:
> jIH qan law’ SoH qan puS
> I'm older than you
>
> jIH Qup law’ SoH Qup puS
> I'm younger than you
>
> cha’ DISmo’ jIH qan law’ SoH qan puS
> I'm two years older than you
>
> You can also replace some of the components and say the following:
> cha’ ’ujmo’ jIH woch law’ SoH woch puS
> I'm two 'ujes taller than you.
> -------------------
>
>
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