[lojban-beginners] Re: vreta

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

I see.  So like most things lojban, you can't count on the "approximate english equivalent" to be at all regular or normal.  eg. "___ing = nu ____" is not always (or even usually) a good generalization.

 - Luke Bergen

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

On Tuesday 10 March 2009 18:17:28 Minimiscience wrote:
> The problem is that, in English, the present participle of a verb (the form
> used, among other places, in the progressive form, e.g., "Zoe is ____ing")
> is the same as the gerund (the form used in a noun phrase corresponding to
> Lojban "{nu}").

A few centuries ago, they weren't: the participle ended in "-ind". In German
they end in "-end" and "-ung".

Pierre