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Date: Mon Mar 10 09:59:38 1997
From: "Jorge J. Llambias" <jorge@INTERMEDIA.COM.AR>
Subject:      Re: another question -- "have"
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Trevor Hill wrote:
>
> So ... another question here.. :)  how do you ask someone whether they
> have something "on them"  or with them at the moment...?

I think "tolcau" (to'e claxu) should work for this.

> In English we can just say "do you have an X?"...

        xu do tolcau lo broda

However, if what you are really asking is whether you can borrow
an X, then you should say something like:

        e'o mi jbera lo broda do

> but the words "ponse", "ralte", and "bevri" don't seem to be right for
> this sort of situation....

Yes, I agree.

Jorge