Re: [lojban-beginners] I think I can use "kau" to express Japanese "ga" and "wa"

[Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipeg.assis@gmail.com>]

On 12 October 2012 00:16, Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com> wrote:
> {.i do xu klama} "Is it you who goes?" (as opposed to someone else)
> {.i do klama xu} "Are you *going*?" (as opposed to doing something else)
>

I understood that "watashi ga/wa iku" are declarations, not questions...

In any case, it is relevant to point that, in the case of yes/no questions,
the non-initial position of {xu} marks the preceding element as a focus
of the question, no doubt or debate on that.

In other words, if {kau} marked the focus of sentences in general,
the following pairs could be considered equivalent.
{.i do xu klama} ~ {.i xu do kau klama}
{.i do klama xu} ~ {.i xu do klama kau}

mu'o
mi'e .asiz.

> On 11 October 2012 17:21, .iocikun.juj. <yoshikuni.jujo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> English "I go" is "watashi ga iku" or "watashi wa iku" in Japanese.

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