[lojban-beginners] Re: Study plan for a quiz- I'd like a second opinion on this one

[tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com>]

2009/11/1 Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>:
> On Sunday 01 November 2009 04:00:32 tijlan wrote:
>> Some languages don't have adjectives, and i wonder how would speakers
>> of those languages interpret "morsi" in contrast to "mrobi'o".
>
> Lojban doesn't have adjectives either. The difference is aspect: you spend a
> short time or an instant dying, and are dead thereafter.

Showing such difference is what ZAhO are for:

 da ca co'i morsi (One dies.)
 da ca ba'o morsi (One is dead.)

So:

 da ca morsi (One dies / is dead.)

and

 da morsi (One dies/died/... / is/was/... dead.)

Just like the tense, the aspect is undetermined for a bare selbri.


mu'o