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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/21/2020 9:11 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<div dir="auto">Would it be grammatically wrong to say the
following ?</div>
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<div dir="auto">jaghpu' chaH chaH'e'</div>
<div dir="auto">enemies are they</div>
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<div dir="auto">I know we could say {jaghpu' chaH}, but my problem
is, whether it would be grammatically wrong to say too the
{jaghpu' chaH chaH'e'}.</div>
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<p>Ungrammatical. No, there's no rule against it, but it's obviously
not said this way. The <b>chaH</b> is NOT the verb <i>are.</i>
It's the pronoun <i>they, them.</i> In Klingon, pronouns are not
verbs, even when they are the center of a copula sentence.</p>
<p><b>jaghpu' chaH romuluSnganpu''e'<br>
</b><i>As for Romulans, enemies them.</i></p>
<p>Nothing is happening in this sentence, and no condition is being
described. This is an identity. Identities are handled by pronouns
in Klingon.<br>
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