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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: How to say "Two months later"
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la epcat cusku di'e

> I want to say "Two months later I know 11% of the vocabulary" in Lojban. 

"Two months later" is a time displacement. Indefinite time displacements
are done with {zi}, {za}, {zu}. So "some time later" would be "bazaku".

For a definite time displacement, I use {za} to tag the time period
in question, so 

    ba za lo masti be li re 
    "later, with a time displacement of two months"

This is analogous to the use of {ze'a lo masti be li re} for a 
duration of two months, for example:

    mi pu tadni ze'a lo masti be li re
    "I studied for a period of two months"

That use of {ze'a} is standard. The use of {za} is not quite 
standard. 
 
> Is it: 
> {.i ba'o la'e di'e roi re masti mi djuno lo valsi ji'e li nanacei} 
> in-aftermath-of referent-of last-utterance quantified-tense 2 month I know
> word up-to-limit 11%
> Is {ba'o} what I want? 

If it's two months after something, just {ba}. 

> It seems that I have used {masti} ungrammatically, but
> I don't know where to fit it.

{re masti} is two periods of one month, for example June and October.
{lo masti be li re} is a period of two months.

   i ba za lo masti be li re mi se slabu papace'i lo valsi

{djuno} is for knowing facts, "knowing that...", for knowing 
things (or knowing people) use {se slabu}.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



		
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