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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>
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Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] I think I can use "kau" to express Japanese
  "ga" and "wa"
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On Friday, October 12, 2012 03:18:55 .iocikun.juj. wrote:
> ki'e la gleki
> 
> I think some "wa" can be translate to use {kau} and some "wa" can be
> translate to use {zo'u}.
> 
> {zo'u} is great.
> The Japanese sentence "zou wa hana ga nagai" is {lo xanto zo'u lo nazbi
> clani}.
> It mean that noses of elephants are long.
> To use {zo'u}, I can translate directly.
> 
> zou: elephant
> hana: nose
> nagai: long

I was just writing this exact example - one minor point, you need "cu" before 
"clani" or "ku" after "nazbi".

Pierre
-- 
sei do'anai mi'a djuno puze'e noroi nalselganse srera

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