From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Tue Jun 22 14:47:23 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:47:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41902.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.153]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.32) id 1Bct6e-0006ol-RW for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:47:05 -0700 Message-ID: <20040622214633.72630.qmail@web41902.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.49.74.2] by web41902.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:46:33 PDT Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:46:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban] Re: Question on "a lot of water" To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 8137 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list la ian cusku di'e > I'm a beginner in Lojban. Going through the Lojban tiki, I found, > among other interesting threads, this discussion about how to translate "a > lot of water". What about : "ni djacu cu barda" ? You need a gadri in front of {ni djacu}, for example {lo ni djacu cu barda}. That would say that the amount of (something) being water is big. More directly you can say {le djacu cu barda}, "the quantity of water is big". If you want to say something about a certain big amount of water, then {le djacu barda} or {le barda djacu}, or {le barda je djacu}: "the thing I have in mind, which I describe as big and water." For example: mi pu zi mo'u vimcu le barda djacu poi carvi ti "I just finished removing the lot of water which fell here." If you don't have a specific lot of water in mind, then {lo} is better: ca ro nu carvi kei lo barda djacu cu nerbi'o le zdani "Every time it rains, a lot of water gets inside the house." mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail