Klingon/Irregular nouns

Irregular nouns
There are a handful of irregular nouns in Klingon.

Irregular plurals
These nouns have plurals that are not formed by adding a plural suffix (-Du', -mey or -pu'). Adding -mey gives a meaning scattered about or all over the place. The plural form of these nouns take a singular prefix such as yI-.

Plural nouns
These noun exist in the plural only, and have no known singular. When used in a sentence, the verb prefix referring to the noun must also be singular, such as yI-. (However, a Klingon noun without a plural suffix can be used as a plural, in which case it may be that the normal plural forms exist for some of these nouns.)

* There is no canon to back up these assumptions. The *cha in lolSeHcha and 'eDSeHcha may have nothing to do with torpedoes (just as the word "does" (meaning 'female deer, plural') has nothing to do with "torpedoes" even though they contain the same sound).

Topic:Klingon