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[lojban-beginners] Re: example of du'u please?
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> heh, which usage of "that"?
The conjunction that introduces a subordinate clause.
> "that apple over there",
That one is {va}/{vu}.
>"I am the man that ate the apple",
That one is {poi ke'a}.
> "that which does not kill me will only make me stronger"....
That one would be {lo}.
There's also "that's beautiful", which would be {ta}/{tu}.
> Also, part of my confusion at first was that I thought that du and du'u were
> somehow similar or from the same family or something. Is this true or is it
> just coincidence that they look similar?
Just coincidence.
mu'o mi'e xorxes