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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/22/2018 9:37 AM, David Holt wrote:<br>
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Klingon dictionary is clear that numbers "may stand alone as
subjects or objects or they may modify another noun." It is an
easy logical leap to treat {'ar} in the same way, but {'ar} is
not a type of number and so that may not be allowed. TKD says
only that {'ar} "follows the noun to which it refers." Does
anyone know if any canon which uses {'ar} as a stand alone
subject or object? What do you think of that use of it and
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<p>The sentence that raised this question, by the way, is <b>'ar
bo'ab,</b> meant to mean <i>How tall are you?</i></p>
<p>I would point out that only <b>'Iv</b> and <b>nuq</b> (and, by
extension of suffix, <b>nuqDaq</b>) act like pronouns,
substituting for the answer. <b>'ar </b>does not substitute
itself for a number. This is clear not only because <b>'ar</b>
comes after the noun, not before, and constrains its use of a
plural suffix, but because <b>'ar</b> can be used on mass nouns
where numbers cannot. You can ask <b>nIn 'ar wIghaj</b><i> How
much fuel do we have?</i> but you cannot say <b>vagh nIn wIghaj
</b><i>We have five fuels.</i><br>
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