[lojban-beginners] Re: Hi and lots of questions

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 6/7/06, Antonio Soriano <antonio.soriano@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > the answer given is: .i {lenu jimpe {lenu la jan. cliva}} na nandu la
> > > suzyn. my answer: .i la suzyn na nandu jimpe lenu la jan cliva
> >
> > This is true if Susan understands easily, but it's also true if Susan
> doesn't
> > understand at all.
>
> I see... maybe this is in the lessons that I havent read yet, but, is there
> a way to group the na with nandu only, and not the entire tanru?

Yes, {na'e nandu} will do that.

> "nandunai
> jimpe" or something like that? (I dont know if nai can be used this way, I
> am guessing not)

{nandunai} is a single word with the shape of a fu'ivla, a borrowing.
You can't omit the space between a brivla and a following cmavo. But even
{nandu nai} won't work, because {nai} is restricted to be used only with
certain selected words,

mu'o mi'e xorxes