Type 3 noun suffixes

Type 3 noun suffixes, add qualification to the noun, and can only be attached to nouns:

Overview

There are three suffixes of this type, which all show how sure the speaker is about what he is talking about.

Suffix	meaning
-qoq	so-called
-Hey	apparent
-na'	definite

Details

so-called

This suffixe -qoq indicates that the speakers is speaking ironically, knowing that the word he is using is actually wrong or fake. The suffix is a homonym with the word for "robot" qoq, but that is only a coincidence. The KLI used this wordplay on their T-shirt for the 17^th qep'a' with the phrase qoqqoq QoQqoq je "So-called robot and so-called music".

apparent

definite

Other suffix types

Type	Sort	Suffixes
1	Size/Importance	-'a', -Hom, -oy
2	Number	-pu', -Du', -mey
3	Qualification	-Hey, -qoq, -na'
4	Possession/Specification	-wIj, -lIj, -vam, -vetlh
5	Syntactic Markers	-Daq, -vo', -mo', -vaD, -'e'

See also

• verb suffixes

References