On 11/8/2016 11:06 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
ok, thanks; however another question came to mind:
I understand why the {Dochmey mI'} is wrong/inappropriate for the intented meaning. But what if I wrote {Dochmey HochHom} for "almost all of the things" ? In this example, is the {HochHom} the head noun too ?
Yes. Technically, if I said *Dochmey HochHom vISay'moHta'*/I cleaned most of the things,/ I'm saying I cleaned "a majority." A majority of what? Things. It's a "thing-majority," which is a kind of majority, not a kind of thing. It gets confusing because in English we say "most of the things," wherein /most/ is not a noun. But Klingon expresses this in a noun-noun construction, so the grammar is different. The Klingon kind of looks like *HochHom* is acting like an adjectival verb, but it's not. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name