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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/8/2016 11:06 AM, mayqel qunenoS
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<pre wrap="">ok, thanks; however another question came to mind:
I understand why the {Dochmey mI'} is wrong/inappropriate for the
intented meaning. But what if I wrote {Dochmey HochHom} for "almost
all of the things" ? In this example, is the {HochHom} the head noun
too ?
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<p>Yes. Technically, if I said <b>Dochmey HochHom vISay'moHta'</b><i>
I cleaned most of the things,</i> I'm saying I cleaned "a
majority." A majority of what? Things. It's a "thing-majority,"
which is a kind of majority, not a kind of thing.</p>
<p>It gets confusing because in English we say "most of the things,"
wherein <i>most</i> is not a noun. But Klingon expresses this in
a noun-noun construction, so the grammar is different. The Klingon
kind of looks like <b>HochHom</b> is acting like an adjectival
verb, but it's not.<br>
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