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From: Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net>
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: How to ask "which"?
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On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:46:41PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> coi rodo
>=20
> How does one ask "which" in Lojban? Specifically, something like "which=
=20
> book do you want?" or "I don't know which class to take".
>=20
> Something like "ma poi cukta / makau poi velcli" ?

That would work fine.

If they had jsut said something about the book you can use ki'a for
this:

A: mi nelci le cukta			(I like the book)
B: le ki'a cukta			(Which book?)
A: le xunre cukta poi se finti la djan.	(The red book by john)

--=20
Jordan DeLong - fracture@allusion.net
lu zo'o loi censa bakni cu terzba le zaltapla poi xagrai li'u
                                     sei la mark. tuen. cusku

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