<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.696px">and I ask again..</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">"..However, if one of the meanings given by the {-wI'} is "thing which does/is", then why not translate {ghelwI'} as "thing which asks"/"thing which is asking" i.e. a question ?.."</span><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">qunnoq</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 5, 2017 16:02, "Lieven" <<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de">levinius@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Am 05.09.2017 um 14:32 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:<br>
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Would you accept the word {ghelwI'} for "question" ?<br>
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Am 05.09.2017 um 14:47 schrieb André Müller:<br>
> No. I would understand it as a person who is asking.<br>
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Exactly. Same for {jangwI'}.<br>
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> But I've always been struggling a bit when in need for a word meaning<br>
> 'question'. The best I could come up with is: {mu'tlhegh ghellu'bogh},<br>
> lit. 'sentence that someone asks'.<br>
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And even in this case, it sounds like somebody is stating a question TO the sentence, so expecting the sentence to give an answer.<br>
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You "ask" a person, not a phrase.<br>
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If you insist using a noun phrase, I sugest turing that around, i.e. {ghelbogh mu'tlhegh} "asking sentence".<br>
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> It's better to find another expression, perhaps only<br>
> involving the verb {ghel} 'to ask'.<br>
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Yes, indeed. Klingon is action-related.<br>
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Don't say "I have a question", but say "I want to ask". There is nothing wrong with that, and it usually works: {jIghel vIneH}.<br>
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