Klingon/Grammar/Questions
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This page may need to be One demarcates questions in Klingon either by using the suffix 'a' or any of various "question words" (analagous to who, when, where, etc.).
[edit] Vocabulary
Da- prefix: Subject you object it, he, or she
Deb: Desert (n.)
[edit] 'a'
One uses this Type 9 verb suffix to ask about whether the subject of the sentence does the action to which 'a' is appended.
Example:
Dalegh'a'
Do you see it?
[edit] Question words
- chay
- how
- ghorgh
- when
- nuq
- what
- nuqDaq
- where
- qatlh
- why
- 'ar
- how many, how much
- 'Iv
- who
Question words are used directly in place of what is in question, i.e. nuqDaq yIt, which means "Where does he/she/it walk?", means more literally "He walks at what?" (An answer to this question might be DebDaq yIt (He/she/it walks at a desert), if the particular person walking lived in a desert ("Deb")).
