X-Digest-Num: 215 Message-ID: <44114.215.1154.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 18:23:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Spigot Subject: Re: Re: zi balvi X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 1154 Content-Length: 419 Lines: 17 > Can 'zi' be used like that? I thought it was used as a suffix in tenses. pg 220 in the book -- le nanmu zu batci le gerku a long time from or before now, the man will bite or bit the dog. and "'zi' by itself signals an event that happens at a time close to the present, but without saying whether it is in the past or the future. a rough translation might be 'about now, but not exactly now.'"