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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>
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Subject: Re: [lojban] Please, the best explanation of {le} vs. {lo}
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:44:46 -0400
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On Friday, June 21, 2013 13:04:52 =D0=90=D0=BD=D0=B0=D1=82=D0=BE=D0=BB=D0=
=B8=D0=B9 =D0=93=D0=B0=D1=88=D0=B5=D0=B2 wrote:
> Hi! If I want to say "I have a car. The car is white.":
> (I'm interested only in differences between {le} and {lo}.)
> 1. with {le}: mi ponse le karce .i le karce cu blabi
> 2. with {lo}: mi ponse lo karce .i lo karce cu blabi
> I think the first choice is better. Am I right?

I would use "le" because I have a specific car in mind, namely mine. But bo=
th=20
are correct. The second "lo karce" in the second sentence could just as eas=
ily=20
refer to another car though. Use "bi'unai" to mark that the car has been=20
mentioned before, or "bi'u" to mark that it hasn't. (I didn't use "bi'unai"=
=20
the second time the boat occurred in the song because it didn't fit.)

mi ponse lo xunre karce .i lo karce cu blabi
.i mi ponse lo karce .i lo bi'unai karce cu xunre

As Russian doesn't have an article, I suggest you just use "lo" and not wor=
ry=20
about it, until it starts making sense. Getting the article right is not as=
=20
important in Lojban as it is in English.

Pierre
--=20
lo ponse be lo mruli ku po'o cu ga'ezga roda lo ka dinko

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