On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:50 AM Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
Adding the number suffix –*logh* changes things:
(st.klingon 2/1999): *'arlogh* *how many times*? a word that functions adverbially, made up of the question word *'ar* *how much*? *How many*? and the special number suffix -*logh* *times* (as in *six times*)
I wonder if *'arDIch* is possible, meaning something like "what number?", "which position in a series?", or "how manyth?", and expecting an ordinal number *(wa'DIch, cha'DIch*, etc.) in response. German has an interrogative *wievielter* which, *vIqawchu'chugh*, has a similar meaning. *che'wI' 'arDIch ghaH Barack Obama'e'?* "Which president was Obama?", expecting an answer like *che'wI' loSmaH loSDIch ghaH.* *qIj puH DujlIj 'arDIch?* "Which of your cars was black?" (That is, which of the cars in the series of cars you've owned was black?) *QapwI' 'arDIch SoH?* "What place did you come in?" (I don't know how Klingons talk about placing in a competition but* QapwI' wa'DIch* for "first place", *QapwI' cha'DIch* for "second place", might work for now. Or maybe not.)