Re: [lojban-beginners] Possessives

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

   Well, a selbri is just the description of relationship between one or more things (sumti (arguments)).  It often ROUGHLY corresponds to a verb in natural languages.  Just  like in English "Pierre is a good friend of Annie" or "I will go to the mall", "is a good friend of" or "will go to" describes the relationships between Pierre and Annie or me and the mall in more than one word, lojban does the same.  "la pier. cu pendo la anis." is "Pierre is a friend of Annie"  And "la pier cu 
mutce pendo la anis" would be "Pierre is a good friend of Annie".  The selbri in the first is "pendo", and in the second "mutce pendo"  "I go to the mall" is "mi klama lo zarci" while "I will go to the mall" is "mi ba klama lo zarci" The selbri in the first is "klama", in the second "ba klama".

            --gejyspa

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Annie <park.annie@asb.gaggle.net> wrote:

How can two words be one selbri?

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On Nov 30, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org> wrote:

> On Friday, November 30, 2012 09:00:23 hugesmile@hotmail.com wrote:
>> How does {se / te / ve / xe} affect {vo'a}?
>> For example, let's say in your sentence, we use {se prami}, and move some
>> stuff around.
>>
>> Which is correct?
>>
>> "lo ponse be vo'e cu se prami lo mlatu poi vo'a citkygau"
>>      or
>> "lo ponse be vo'a cu se prami lo mlatu poi vo'e citkygau"
>>     or
>> something else?
>
> The first. The second means that someone owns himself and the cat feeds
> herself. The selbri is "se prami".
>
> Pierre
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> lo ponse be lo mruli po'o cu ga'ezga roda lo ka dinko
>
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