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[lojban-beginners] Re: About the negators



On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:20 PM, J Y <kkm2019@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you. But I meant , how do we say sentences like these :
>
>    Not them will do the work tomorrow
>    They will do\ not the work tomorrow
>    They will do the work not tomorrow
> Should i just put {na'e} before or after the sumti ?

You can put {na'e bo} before the sumti:

  na'e bo tu ba zukte lo selgu'a ca lo bavlamdei
  tu ba zukte na'e bo lo selgu'a ca lo bavlamdei
  tu ba zukte lo selgu'a ca na'e bo lo bavlamdei

But instead of {na'e bo lo selgu'a} and {na'e bo lo bavlamdei} you can
just say {lo na'e selgu'a} and {lo na'e bavlamdei}.

And instead of {zukte lo selgu'a}, just {gunka}, at least in the first
and third cases:

  na'e bo tu ba gunka ca lo bavlamdei
  tu ba gunka ca lo na'e bavlamdei

mu'o mi'e xorxes