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la goran cusku di'e

> Hey, this is neat: / mi tcenei tu'a
>
> lu .i majei lo do ctuca cu citno li'u ce'obo
> lu .i li piso'i li'u .e
> lu .i majei ti xalka li'u ce'obo
> lu .i li pisoxa li'u
>
> You can't get this meaning with {du'u xukau}.
> lo de'u smuni na pe'i cumki sepi'o lu du'u xukau co'e li'u

That's true, but then those do not involve indirect questions.

Like And said, it would make more sense to have a lujvo that
means "x1 is the truth value of predication x2" for things like that.
It is not very common to use NU directly as predicates, but it is allowed.

I like {majei} though. It means something like "How true is it that...?"

> BTW, question:
> After {xu broda}, {go'i} evaluates to {broda}.
> After {ko'a broda}, it evaluates to {ko'a broda}.
> If we have a sentence like {ma broda}, what does {go'i} evaluate to?

I think to {ma broda} again. {ma} behaves just like an ordinary sumti.

Jorge