This lesson is going to cover numbers, telling the time and the days of the week. So let us jump right in and look at the Klingon numbers from zero to ten.

Numeral	pIqaD	Klingon	English
		pagh	zero
		wa'	one
		cha'	two
		wej	three
		loS	four
		vagh	five
		jav	six
		Soch	seven
		chorgh	eight
		Hut	nine
		wa'maH	ten

Numbers above nine are created by adding different number forming elements. So ten is wa', one, plus maH, the element for ten. Eleven is wa'maH wa', twelve is wa'maH cha', fifty seven is vaghmaH Soch. For higher numbers there are other elements:

pIqaD	Klingon	English
	vatlh	hundred
	SaD	thousand
	SanID	thousand
	netlh	ten thousand
	bIp	hundred thousand
	'uy'	million

These elements are used in the same was as maH, ten, was. Notice there are two elements for thousand. Both are correct and freely interchangeable, so wa'SaD and wa'SanID both mean one thousand. Here is an example of a really big number in Klingon:

Now that we have covered the basic numbers, let's move on to telling time.

First we will cover a couple of phrases used to ask what the time is:

pIqaD	Klingon	English
	rep yIper!	Tell me the time!
	'arlogh Qoylu'pu'	What time is it?

The first of these phrases is easy to understand and is the most common way to get the exact time. You answer by saying rep and then the time in twenty four hour (military) format.

The second phrase, 'arlogh Qoylu'pu', is actually an ancient idiomatic phrase that means "How many times has it been heard?". In the past people were told the hour by some loud noise: a bell, howl or drum; so they would ask each other the time by asking how many noises have been made. To answer this you just say the hour (in twenty four hour format) plus the repetition number element logh. If it was two o'clock in the morning and someone asked 'arlogh Qoylu'pu' the reply would be cha'logh (twice). Here are some more examples.

So literally these phrases translate to nine times, eleven times, seventeen times and twenty times.

We don't know the names of the Klingon months but we can refer to the Terran months by simply numbering them.

The word tera' in these names simply means Terran and can be dropped in most conversations. Only when you want to talk about the difference between Terran months (tera' jar) and Klingon months (tlhIngan jar) would you actually use it.