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Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] "One more than the current number of X"
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On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 3:11 PM, vruxir <kextrii@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to quantify a sumti to mean "One more [than the current
> number of] X"? (Or any other number, not just one.)
>
> For example:
> "We need to recruit one more person."
> "Two more missing children were found today."

You can use "drata":

"ma'a nitcu lo nu cmigau pa drata prenu"
"re drata ke selcri verba cu se tolcri ca lo cabdei"

I'm not sure that "one more [than the current number]" would work
here. If the current number is five, then "We need to recruit one more
[than five] people" would mean that we need to recruit six people, and
"two more [than five] missing children were found today" would mean
that seven missing children were found today.

> I had thought of using "su'i pa da" / "su'i pa prenu", but jboski was not
> pleased.

You need "vei" to use a MEX as a quantifier: "vei su'i pa da" / "vei
su'i pa prenu".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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