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So, when I see {du} I should mentally adjust and treat it like a brivla.  In
that case, it should be legal to say things like {lo du be lo gerku}.

Cool.

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Kevin Reid <kpreid@switchb.org> wrote:

> On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:09, Luke Bergen wrote:
>
>  {du} has always kind of confused me.  How does it function?  Is it a
>> selbri?  Does it behave like a relative clause? A kind of abstractor? Is it
>> it's own grammatical construct?
>>
>
> It is just a selbri. You can use it anywhere you can use a brivla; it just
> happens to be morphologically a cmavo. The meaning of "du" could have been
> given to a gismu instead; it was just decided that this word should be
> especially short.
>
> Grammatically, {du} is in selma'o GOhA; the other members of GOhA are the
> selbri-position special words like {mo} and {go'i}.
>
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So, when I see {du} I should mentally adjust and treat it like a brivla. =
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<div><br></div><div>Cool.<br><div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri, Se=
p 10, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Kevin Reid <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:=
kpreid@switchb.org">kpreid@switchb.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class=3D"im">On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:09=
, Luke Bergen wrote:<br>
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x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
{du} has always kind of confused me. =A0How does it function? =A0Is it a se=
lbri? =A0Does it behave like a relative clause? A kind of abstractor? Is it=
 it&#39;s own grammatical construct?<br>
</blockquote>
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It is just a selbri. You can use it anywhere you can use a brivla; it just =
happens to be morphologically a cmavo. The meaning of &quot;du&quot; could =
have been given to a gismu instead; it was just decided that this word shou=
ld be especially short.<br>

<br>
Grammatically, {du} is in selma&#39;o GOhA; the other members of GOhA are t=
he selbri-position special words like {mo} and {go&#39;i}.<br><font color=
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