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[lojban-beginners] Re: How to express " though " "even if "



2009/3/2 J Y <kkm2019@gmail.com>:
>> I usually use "to'e ki'u nai" for that, literally "not prevented by":
>>
>>  mi gleki to'eki'unai lo nu mi pindi
>>
>
> That is hard to understand for me.

It *was* for me too, pretty much. ;)

> In fact I want to mean
> { lonu mi pindi na mukti lonu mi na gleki }&{lonu mi pindi na srana lonu mi gleki }   ( ra'anai lonu pindi ? )
>
> mu'o mi'e la se cfipu

Then:

 mi pindi
 semu'inai lo nu na gleki
 sera'anai lo nu gleki

The second term might be better expressed with { jei }: { lo jei gleki }.

mu'o mi'e tijlan