By The Numbers: 1 - Recap

Let's take a few weeks, now, to start looking at the numbers.

We covered the basics of numbers right back in the section on telling time. We're looking at the numbers themselves, now.

Digits

To recap: The digits of tlhIngan Hol are:-

pagh	zero, 0	vagh	five, 5
wa'	one, 1	jav	six, 6
cha'	two, 2	Soch	seven, 7
wej	three, 3	chorgh	eight, 8
loS	four, 4	Hut	nine, 9

To make bigger numbers, we must introduce number-forming elements. These look like suffixes, and they go after the digits.

The first number-forming element to look at is maH tens.

To form a two-digit number (X tens plus Y units) the format is X-maH Y. The numbers 10, 20, 30 and so on are:-

wa'maH	10
cha'maH	20
wejmaH	30
loSmaH	40
vaghmaH	50
javmaH	60
SochmaH	70
chorghmaH	80
HutmaH	90

Here are the numbers from 0 through to 99.

pagh	0
wa'	1
cha'	2
wej	3
loS	4
vagh	5
jav	6
Soch	7
chorgh	8
Hut	9
wa'maH	10
wa'maH wa'	11
wa'maH cha'	12
wa'maH wej	13
wa'maH loS	14
wa'maH vagh	15
wa'maH jav	16
wa'maH Soch	17
wa'maH chorgh	18
wa'maH Hut	19
cha'maH	20
cha'maH wa'	21
cha'maH cha'	22
cha'maH wej	23
cha'maH loS	24
cha'maH vagh	25
cha'maH jav	26
cha'maH Soch	27
cha'maH chorgh	28
cha'maH Hut	29
wejmaH	30
wejmaH wa'	31
wejmaH cha'	32
wejmaH wej	33
wejmaH loS	34
wejmaH vagh	35
wejmaH jav	36
wejmaH Soch	37
wejmaH chorgh	38
wejmaH Hut	39
loSmaH	40
loSmaH wa'	41
loSmaH cha'	42
loSmaH wej	43
loSmaH loS	44
loSmaH vagh	45
loSmaH jav	46
loSmaH Soch	47
loSmaH chorgh	48
loSmaH Hut	49
vaghmaH	50
vaghmaH wa'	51
vaghmaH cha'	52
vaghmaH wej	53
vaghmaH loS	54
vaghmaH vagh	55
vaghmaH jav	56
vaghmaH Soch	57
vaghmaH chorgh	58
vaghmaH Hut	59
javmaH	60
javmaH wa'	61
javmaH cha'	62
javmaH wej	63
javmaH loS	64
javmaH vagh	65
javmaH jav	66
javmaH Soch	67
javmaH chorgh	68
javmaH Hut	69
SochmaH	70
SochmaH wa'	71
SochmaH cha'	72
SochmaH wej	73
SochmaH loS	74
SochmaH vagh	75
SochmaH jav	76
SochmaH Soch	77
SochmaH chorgh	78
SochmaH Hut	79
chorghmaH	80
chorghmaH wa'	81
chorghmaH cha'	82
chorghmaH wej	83
chorghmaH loS	84
chorghmaH vagh	85
chorghmaH jav	86
chorghmaH Soch	87
chorghmaH chorgh	88
chorghmaH Hut	89
HutmaH	90
HutmaH wa'	91
HutmaH cha'	92
HutmaH wej	93
HutmaH loS	94
HutmaH vagh	95
HutmaH jav	96
HutmaH Soch	97
HutmaH chorgh	98
HutmaH Hut	99

Using Numbers

Counting: The verb for count in Klingon is togh, and SIm is the verb for calculate. The noun for number is mI'.

mI'mey vIlo' 'e' jItogh	Using numbers, I count
naQnIS ngaSwI' 'e' SImta'	He calculated that the container had to be full

Numbers are used as nouns. They can stand alone, or they can modify other nouns. When used for counting, the number comes before the noun modified:-

jav qama' vItogh	I count six prisoners
DaH wa'maH loS DarSeq DIDIlnISlaw'	We must now apparently pay 14 darseks

Plural suffixes (-pu', -Du', -mey) are not needed when numbers are used:-

cha' mIn vIghaj	I have two eyes
cha'maH DarSeq qotlh	It is worth twenty darseks

One use for numbers is to answer the question How many? How much?:-

'ar	How many? How much?

'ar

This question word is always used directly after the noun it refers to. 'ar must never follow a noun with a plural suffix.

jaghpu' 'ar tu'lu'	How many enemies are there?
nuleghpu' yaSpu' 'ar	How many officers saw us?

Here, where the answer can be expressed as a number, just plug the number in before the noun referred to in the question by 'ar:-

wejmaH Hut jaghpu' tu'lu'	There are 39 enemies
nuleghpu' cha'maH Soch yaSpu'	27 officers saw us

Next: The hundreds number-forming unit.