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Subject: [lojban] Translation of "ze"
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Hello,

in french, there are "un, une" which means "a, an" in english...  and
"le, la", which means "the" in english.

But on some rare occasions, french people say "the" (they can write it
"ze"), which then means "the" as in english, but with the connotation
that it is "the X that comes obviously"

for instance :

"=C7a c'est ZE probl=E8me !" =3D "That, it's the (obvious, self-evident,
main, most important) question !"

The idea is that some X (the X which is "ze X") has optimal pertinence.

Does Lojban have something for this kind of lo/la/... ?

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