Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:40:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Eyvkn-0003tB-RO for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:40:25 -0800 Received: from mailgw6.gedas.de ([139.1.44.12]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Eyvkk-0003t0-H1 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:40:25 -0800 Received: from mailgw6.gedas.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailgw6.gedas.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k0HIeKVg008893 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:40:20 +0100 Received: from blnsem08.de.gedas-grp (blnsem08.gedas.de [139.1.84.54]) by mailgw6.gedas.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k0HIeKP1008887 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:40:20 +0100 Received: by blnsem08.de.gedas-grp with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:40:20 +0100 Message-ID: From: "Newton, Philip" To: "'lojban-beginners@lojban.org'" Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: ago Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:40:19 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 2966 X-Approved-By: Philip.Newton@gedas-onsite.de X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: Philip.Newton@gedas-onsite.de Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 555 la .xorxes. cu cusku di'e > > On 1/17/06, Philip Newton wrote: > > How would one say something like "Three days ago, I went to the > > store"? Or, in general, "[time period] ago"? > > This is how *I* say it: > > mi pu klama le zarci za lo djedi be li ci Ah, and the fact that it means "three days ago" rather than "three days from now" is indicated by context and/or the {pu} before the selbri, yes? "In three days, I'll go to the store" would then be {mi ba klama le zarci za lo djedi be li ci}? mu'o mi'e .filip.