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From: Timo Paulssen <timonator@perpetuum-immobile.de>
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Timo answers Yitziks first questions :)
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I.Penzev wrote:
> coi rodo

coi fi'i .itsik .i mi gleki lo nu do lojbo binxo ui


> mi'e .itsik. .i mi xabju le vurgu'e .i mi puzi co'a cilre fi la lojban.=

> I'd like to ask a couple of questions concerning Lojban grammar usage.
> If I understand correctly, ti botpi loi birje means 'this is a bottle o=
f
> beer'. How should I say 'I bought a bottle of beer'? mi pu terve'u lo
> botpi be loi birje ?

Exactly, that's the main use of the sumti-linker {be}.


> I'd like also to know cliches for such structures as
> - 'I've got a new car'/'I've got a wife and two children';

You can either say {mi ponse lo cnino karce} or {mi puzi cpacu/terve'u lo=

(cnino) karce}.
You can express the other sentence in more than one way, the one that com=
es to
my mind first would be {mi speni pa ninmu gi'e patfu re da/verba/nixli/na=
nla}
and the other maybe a little more lojbanic one would go something like {m=
i pa
mei se speni gi'e re mei se patfu}


> - 'There is a book on the table';

{lo cukta cu cpana lo jubme}


> - 'May I play this computer game?'

Either with an attitudinal question like this:
{.e'a pei mi samkelci ti}
Or with a bridi structure:
{xu do curmi lo nu mi samkelci ti}


> - 'Let us go for a short walk'.

{.e'u mi'o ze'i cadzu}


> mu'o mi'e .itsik.

=2Ea'o mi sidju do
mu'o mi'e timos .ui


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