On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 9:22 AM SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:

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.

I'm not sure it's quite so clearly defined as that.

See my other post. This falls in the area between clearly grammatical and clearly ungrammatical.

There certainly is some verbiness to pronouns when they operate in an identity, in that the identity may be continuous or completed or beginning or interrogative or conditional, etc. But pronouns still aren't verbs. They don't take verb prefixes, they don't take objects, they can't be nominalized, and when they're not tying two nouns together they are the subject of the sentence. chaH doesn't mean they are; it just means they, them. The are comes from translating it into English, which requires a form of the verb be in this kind of sentence. In the Klingon, you just shove a pronoun next to a noun to make them equivalent.

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