On 1/22/2020 8:02 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:

Suppose I write:

{ghaH loDnI'} with the interned meaning "the brother of him".

Would it be correct ?

With the exception of locative and directional nouns, the answer is no, you can't do this. You need to use *loDnI'wI'.* With locative nouns (*tlhop, Dung, retlh,* etc.) you use the form /pronoun noun,/ such as *jIH tlhop*/area in front of me/ and *tlhIH Dung*/area above you (plural)./ Speakers from the Sakrej region of Kronos are different and use possessive suffixes for these *(tlhopwIj; Dungraj).* The directional nouns use suffixes in all dialects (*'evmaj*/northwest of us,/ *chanDaj*/east of him/her/it/). All dialects except the Sakrej dialect also allow the /pronoun noun/ form *(maH 'ev, ghaH chan),* but the difference between the two forms is that the form with the pronoun emphasizes that the pronoun is the reference point, while the form with suffixes is more neutral. (*'evmaj*/northwest of us,/ but *maH 'ev*/northwest of *US*/). One wonders whether *ghaH loDnI'* might carry the same sense of emphasis (i.e., /*HIS* brother/), but so far as we know that idea of emphasis applies only to directional nouns. http://klingonska.org/canon/1999-12-holqed-08-4-a.txt -- SuStel http://trimboli.name