[lojban-beginners] Re: vreta

[tijlan <pascal.akihiko@gmail.com>]

2009/3/10 Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 04:54:07PM -0400, Luke Bergen wrote:
>> Why would a gismu have a definition like "<verb>ing"?
>
> Because "Bob is reclining on the couch" is just the present tense
> activity; blame the copula.

Also "Bob is sitting on the couch" is the present tense activity, but
the gimste gives "sit", not "sitting", as the definition of "zutse".

>> It seems like the definition should be "recline" and to get
>> "reclining" you would have to say "nu vreta".
>
> No, you would use nu for "I'm watching Bob reclining on the couch.".
>
> mi viska le nu la .bab. cu vreta le sfofa

Another possibility:

la .bab. nu vreta djica

mu'o mi'e tijlan