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la iens cusku di'e

>Let's see whether I understand it.
>
>{le cilre cu xamgu} - learning is good

"The learner is good."

{lo'e nu cilre cu xamgu} - learning is good.

>{le cilre xamgu} - (a tanru I cannot translate)

"The learner good". Just a bit odd. But:

{le xunre cukta} - the red book.

>{lenu mi cilre cu xamgu} - the event of my learning is good

Right.

>{lenu mi cilre xamgu} - the event of my doing (tanru)

The event of my beig a learner good. Similar to "my being
a good learner".

>{lenu mi cilre zo'e cu xamgu} - the event of my learning something
>    is good

Yes. {zo'e} is not really necessary.

>In the last sentence I need {cu} because {lenu zo'e (selbri)
>zo'e ...} is always another selbri. But this selbri doesn't have
>x1, x2, ... like gismus. (?)

It has the same arguments as the last component. {broda brode}
has the place structure of brode.

For example:

xunre cukta: x1 is a red book about subject x2 by author x3 etc.

>mu'o mi'e .iens.
>(Is {ki'e mu'o mi'e .iens.} something like {Thanks, ...}?)

Yes!

mu'o mi'e xorkes




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