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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/19/2018 1:28 PM, mayqel qunenoS
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<div dir="auto">{qIbDaq SuvwI''e' SoH Dun law' Hoch Dun puS}</div>
<div dir="auto">You would be the greatest warrior in the galaxy</div>
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<div dir="auto">I would like to ask, with regards to the
{SuvwI''e'}; does it mean "as for (a) warrior, y<span
style="font-family:sans-serif">ou would be the greatest
warrior in the galaxy</span>", or does it mean "as for
warriors, y<span style="font-family:sans-serif">ou would be the
greatest warrior in the galaxy" ?</span></div>
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<p>Yes.</p>
<p>It makes no difference in Klingon.</p>
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<div dir="auto">If a noun marked with the {-'e'} is placed before
a {noun A X law' noun B X puS} construction, then the number of
that noun (i.e. singular or plural), has to be the same with the
number of "A" or with the number of the "B" ?</div>
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<p>Neither. The phrase is a topic, not a direct antecedent of
anything else in the sentence.</p>
<p>I could, for instance, say <b>Hegh'e' lomvam He'So' law'
lomvetlh He'So' puS</b><i> As for death, this corpse stinks more
than that corpse.</i> I might have been talking about life just
before this sentence, and now I'm switching to talking about
death. Maybe we'd been discussing how decaying bodies bring life
to soil, whatever. The point of <b>-'e'</b> at the beginning is
to introduce the topic of the sentence, to tell the listener what
the sentence is about.<br>
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