can an ordinal number take the {-'e'} ? qunnoH jan puqloD ghoghwIj HablI'vo' vIngeHta'
On 12/19/2016 9:15 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
can an ordinal number take the {-'e'} ?
I don't see why not. Ordinals are still numbers, and numbers are treated grammatically as nouns. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name
mayqel qunenoS asked:
can an ordinal number take the {-'e'} ?
SuStel answered:
I don't see why not. Ordinals are still numbers, and numbers are treated grammatically as nouns.
I quite agree, but I could find only one example of a noun suffix used with {-Dich}: qep'a' wejDIchDaq jatlhtaH tlhIngan Hol HaDwI'pu'. [untranslated] (st.klingon 11/1996?) To which SuStel commented some time later (do you remember the date?): "... in answering my letter about {qep'a' wejDIch}, Marc Okrand used the phrase {qep'a' wejDIchDaq}. Now, it could be considered just a name, but it may also be possible that noun suffixes can go to the ordinal number." -- Voragh tlhIngan ghantoH pIn'a' Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
On 12/20/2016 9:36 AM, Steven Boozer wrote:
mayqel qunenoS asked:
can an ordinal number take the {-'e'} ? SuStel answered: I don't see why not. Ordinals are still numbers, and numbers are treated grammatically as nouns. I quite agree, but I could find only one example of a noun suffix used with {-Dich}:
qep'a' wejDIchDaq jatlhtaH tlhIngan Hol HaDwI'pu'. [untranslated] (st.klingon 11/1996?)
To which SuStel commented some time later (do you remember the date?):
"... in answering my letter about {qep'a' wejDIch}, Marc Okrand used the phrase {qep'a' wejDIchDaq}. Now, it could be considered just a name, but it may also be possible that noun suffixes can go to the ordinal number."
December 18, 1996. Here is the archived message: https://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/1996/December/msg00825.html -- SuStel http://trimboli.name
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 9:15 AM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:
can an ordinal number take the {-'e'} ?
TKD says: "Numbers are used as nouns. As such, they may stand alone as subjects or objects or they may modify another noun." I would understand that to mean I can put noun suffixes on them like I can with nouns and other words that are used as nouns. rav wejDIchDaq puch pa' tu'lu' - There is a restroom on the third floor juHwIj 'oH qech wa'maH cha'DIch'e' - The 22nd building is my home tlhInganHey ghaH nov wejDIchqoq'e' - The so-called "third" alien is apparently a Klingon qurgh
maj ! the reason which actually made me ask this question, was because I wondered what would happen in a situation similar with qurgh's example: {juHwIj 'oH qech wa'maH cha'DIch'e'} The 22nd building is my home. for some reason, I wasn't sure whether it would be actually correct, to place on an ordinal which followed a noun which followed a pronoun the {-'e'}, so thanks for letting me know. oh.. and I liked a lot the: {tlhInganHey ghaH nov wejDIchqoq'e'} The so-called "third" alien is apparently a Klingon I hadn't thought the possibilty of placing on an ordinal, other suffixes (besides the {-'e'}). So, I am happy to assimilate this knowledge too. SuStel qurgh je Satlho'. qunnoH jan puqloD On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 4:24 PM, qurgh lungqIj <qurgh@wizage.net> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 9:15 AM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:
can an ordinal number take the {-'e'} ?
TKD says:
"Numbers are used as nouns. As such, they may stand alone as subjects or objects or they may modify another noun."
I would understand that to mean I can put noun suffixes on them like I can with nouns and other words that are used as nouns.
rav wejDIchDaq puch pa' tu'lu' - There is a restroom on the third floor juHwIj 'oH qech wa'maH cha'DIch'e' - The 22nd building is my home tlhInganHey ghaH nov wejDIchqoq'e' - The so-called "third" alien is apparently a Klingon
qurgh
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