On 1/21/2020 9:11 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
Would it be grammatically wrong to say the following ?
jaghpu' chaH chaH'e' enemies are they
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'}.
Ungrammatical. No, there's no rule against it, but it's obviously not said this way. The *chaH* is NOT the verb /are./ It's the pronoun /they, them./ In Klingon, pronouns are not verbs, even when they are the center of a copula sentence. *jaghpu' chaH romuluSnganpu''e' */As for Romulans, enemies them./ Nothing is happening in this sentence, and no condition is being described. This is an identity. Identities are handled by pronouns in Klingon. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name