I.Penzev wrote:
> coi rodo
coi fi'i .itsik .i mi gleki lo nu do lojbo binxo ui
> mi'e .itsik. .i mi xabju le vurgu'e .i mi puzi co'a cilre fi la lojban.
> I'd like to ask a couple of questions concerning Lojban grammar usage.
> If I understand correctly, ti botpi loi birje means 'this is a bottle of
> beer'. How should I say 'I bought a bottle of beer'? mi pu terve'u lo
> botpi be loi birje ?
Exactly, that's the main use of the sumti-linker {be}.
> I'd like also to know cliches for such structures as
> - 'I've got a new car'/'I've got a wife and two children';
You can either say {mi ponse lo cnino karce} or {mi puzi cpacu/terve'u lo
(cnino) karce}.
You can express the other sentence in more than one way, the one that comes to
my mind first would be {mi speni pa ninmu gi'e patfu re da/verba/nixli/nanla}
and the other maybe a little more lojbanic one would go something like {mi pa
mei se speni gi'e re mei se patfu}
> - 'There is a book on the table';
{lo cukta cu cpana lo jubme}
> - 'May I play this computer game?'
Either with an attitudinal question like this:
{.e'a pei mi samkelci ti}
Or with a bridi structure:
{xu do curmi lo nu mi samkelci ti}
> - 'Let us go for a short walk'.
{.e'u mi'o ze'i cadzu}
> mu'o mi'e .itsik.
.a'o mi sidju do
mu'o mi'e timos .ui
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