From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed May 03 03:07:36 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 03 May 2006 03:07:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FbEGb-00065p-EZ for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 03:07:35 -0700 Received: from phma.hn.org ([166.82.175.165] helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FbEGN-00064b-CD for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 03:07:28 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 984691B7A; Wed, 3 May 2006 10:05:31 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: needed be? Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 06:05:28 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <20060501151108.12449.qmail@web38510.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060501151108.12449.qmail@web38510.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605030605.29786.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-archive-position: 3172 X-Approved-By: phma@phma.optus.nu X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Monday 01 May 2006 11:11, c k wrote: > coi rodo > > In the following bridi, why is "be" needed? > > mi djuno fi le jai ca morsi be fai la djan. > > co'o {fai} is like {fi} and {fo} (but not {fym}). Since {morsi} has an article, its sumti comes after {be}. .i mi djuno fi le jai ca morsi be fai la djan. .i mi djuno fi le se morsi be fo la djan. You probably mean {mrobi'o}, as {la djan. morsi} is true for an indefinitely long interval. Pierre