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Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] What type of food do you want to eat?
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 10:16:20 -0500
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On Friday, December 26, 2014 22:35:09 ravas wrote:
> The most recent thing learning lojban has made me more aware of is the
> English pattern:
> ... do you want to ...
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> Examples for review:
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> What type of food do you want to eat?
> do djica lo ma cidja

I'd say "lo mo cidja". "lo ma cidja", as already stated, means "whose food"=
.

> What do you want to eat?
> pei citka ma

"do djica lo nu citka ma" or "audai citka ma". "pei citka ma" is a double=
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question, "How do you feel about eating what?".

> Where do you want to eat?
> pei citka tu'i ma

"audai citka bu'u ma". Besides what xorxes said, "bu'u" is a tense word,=20
whereas "tu'i" is a proper preposition. (The syntactic distinction is that=
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proper prepositions can be preceded by SE; semantically, all proper=20
prepositions are equivalent to "fi'o <brivla>", except for "do'e" which is =
"fi'o=20
co'e".)

> Why do you want to take that street?
> do zmanei zo'e ki'u ma

do klama fo ta poi klaji ku'o .audai ki'u ma
and there are three other ways to ask "why": "mu'i ma", "seja'e ma", and "n=
i'i=20
ma".

Pierre

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La sal en el mar es m=C3=A1s que en la sangre.
Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.

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