From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Mar 01 18:01:36 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:01:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HMx5T-000576-AJ for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:01:35 -0800 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HMx5N-00056l-T9 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:01:33 -0800 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61466CE95A for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:01:09 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Nouns and verbs (was: learning lojban) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 20:51:50 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <23dc8c770703011333ke79153fuf43807f97880f713@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <23dc8c770703011333ke79153fuf43807f97880f713@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703012051.50926.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: -21 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 4072 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 Thursday 01 March 2007 16:33, Karl Naylor wrote: > On 01/03/07, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > There are nouns and verbs in Lojban, and also conjunctions, prepositions, > > Could you give examples of nouns and verbs? I'm not sure what you're > referring to. A brivla is a verb (whether its translation in any other language is a verb) and a cmene is a noun. We can say {le mlatu cu blabi} or equally well {le blabi cu mlatu}, because they're both verbs (i.e. brivla). In English "the cat is white", "cat" is a noun and "white" is an adjective, so you can't exchange them and say "the white is cat". In {lai .alp. cu galtu}, {alp} and {galtu} are different parts of speech; you can't exchange them and say {lai galtu cu .alp}. phma