mIp'av:

Dochmey mI' sounds like a direct translation of "number of things." Perhaps Klingons use such a phrase, perhaps not.

I used the {Dochmey mI'} in order to say "a number of things", because
I read somewhere at the klingon wiki, that we can use the {mI'} this
way. In fact here is the direct copy-paste from my notes:

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mI' number (of), quantity tlhInganpu' Hem mI' nIb an equal number of
proud Klingons.
----- quote end -----

I had to look this up. It's from the page "Revelations of new rules inside paq'batlh."

The phrase Dochmey mI' is talking about numbers, not things; mI' is the head noun. The phrase number of things is talking about things. In your text, you were interested in the things, of which there are a number, not in the things' numbers, how many things there are. Dochmey mI' is an overly literal attempt to translate an English colloquialism.

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