mayqel qunenoS :
Can we use the {'op} on its own i.e. without a noun following it ?
De'vID:
HIja'.
thanks for telling me ! I must have gotten the idea that the {'op} is only to be used with a noun following it, since most of the times we say things like {'op ret}, {'op pIq} etc..
{'op} "some" and {HochHom} "most" seem to work like {Hoch} "everyone, everything, all". They are nouns and presumably can be used by themselves: E.g. may' ngeb tIv Hoch Everyone enjoys a mock battle. CK Hoch vor Dargh wIb Sour tea cures everything. CK Hoch DaSopbe'chugh batlh bIHeghbe' Eat everything or you will die without honor. PK De'vID:
I would suggest {pem} instead of {jaj}, unless you really meant that they played for all day and all night.
oh yes, this is better ! I had never actually realized that this distinction actually existed in klingon. I had the impression that {jaj} meant day and night as well.
(KGT 121): The word used for days, {pemmey}, is the plural form of {pem} (day, daytime), a word referring to the part of the day when it is light out (as opposed to ram [night]). Another word, {jaj} (day) refers to the full period from dawn to dawn. (KGT 206-7): Thus, Federation Standard uses the single word "day" to refer to both a period of 24 Earth hours (generally reckoned from midnight to midnight) and to that part of the 24-hour period which is light (day as opposed to night). In Klingon, there are two distinct terms: {jaj} is the period from dawn to dawn; {pem} is that part of a {jaj} which is light (as opposed to {ram} [night]). Although Federation Standard also makes use of the locutions "daytime" and "nighttime", when a speaker of Federation Standard is counting periods of daytime, only "day" is used. Thus, "three days", with no further context, is ambiguous, for it can refer to three 24-hour periods (as in "They wandered for three days") or three periods of daylight (as in "They wandered for three days and three nights"). In Klingon, {wej jajmey} means only three stretches from dawn to dawn; {wej pemmey} means three periods of daylight (as opposed to {wej rammey} [three nights]). -- Voragh tlhIngan ghantoH pIn'a' Ca'Non Master of the Klingons