[tlhIngan Hol] The grammatical number of NOUN + 'ar

[De'vID]

On 8 September 2017 at 16:42, Felix Malmenbeck <felixm at kth.se> wrote:
>> I don't understand. If you don't know how many of something there is,
>> how could you know whether it was singular or plural?
>
> Well, in English, we (usually) treat "how many NOUN:s" as grammatically plural:
>
> "How many people have seen it?" (not "How many person has seen it?")
> "How many are there?" (not "How many is there?")
>
> Presumably, Klingon has some similar rule,  or at least a rule-of-thumb for how to deal with this uncertainty.

Based on the "no plural suffix" rule, I would assume that the rule is
to treat it as singular, but it's not explicitly stated.

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De'vID