[tlhIngan Hol] When did you buy the phone which you now use ?

[nIqolay Q]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 9:18 AM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wondering whether we can pack into a single klingon sentence, the
> question:
>
> "When did you buy the phone, which you now use ?"
>
> If we translated it exactly, then perhaps we would have:
>
> {ghorgh DaH ghogh HablI' Dalo'bogh Daje' ?}
>
> But the existence, side-by-side of {ghorgh} and {DaH}, results in an
> awkward sentence
>

It doesn't seem that awkward to me. Since it doesn't make sense for the
{DaH} to go with {Daje'}, it must be going with the relative clause.
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