Perhaps context would prevent someone from interpreting this as “I love this month’s fourteen first days,” instead of “I love this month’s first fourteen days,” but I wouldn’t count on it.

The trick is, on Earth, in most countries, we agree on the months, though that generality might not hold on Qo’noS. We don’t even know that a Klingon month has 28-31 days. There is no Klingon known word for “fortnight”.

Basically, we can’t be sure that Klingons even have the concept of “the first fourteen days of this month”. They might not think of time this way. It’s more likely that they’d have an idea like “the past fourteen days” or other time periods relative to now. We’re not that sure that they have calendars like we do. We don’t know the names of Klingon months, assuming that a Month for them is an absolute reference instead of just a relative one; a standard group size of days, as opposed to a named, fixed part of a year.

On Aug 10, 2020, at 8:12 AM, mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:

Suppose we want to say "I love the first fourteen days of this month".

jaj
day

wa'maH loS jaj
fourteen days

jaj wa'DIch
first day

jajmey wa'DIch
first days

So, after marrying the above we get:

wa'maH loS jaj wa'DIch
first fourteen days

And back to the original example:

jarvam wa'maH loS jaj wa'DIch vIQej
I love the first fourteen days of this month

Is this sentence correct ?

~ Qa'yIn
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