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Re: [lojban-beginners] Unlikely Lojban Valentine's Day Card...



mi jimpe

I forgot that I was using a relative clause. Thank you. I'm just trying to actively use the concepts I've learned so far to get a better feel for them. In fact, I don't even recognize a couple of the cmavo you used in your examples. I'll keep at it!


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:36 PM, v4hn <me@v4hn.de> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 04:14:56PM -0800, Demian Koller wrote:
> Would anyone be willing to tell me if I'm saying something correctly and/or
> suggest a better way? I'm trying to say "I hope the gift I made makes you
> happy.":
>
> .a'o lo se dunda cu se zbasu mi cu se gleki do

This doesn't parse, more than one cu in one sentence/jufra without abstractions
doesn't work out.

.a'o lo se dunda noi mi zbasu cu se gleki do

Is probably a _more_ correct version of what you tried to say.
However, {lo se gleki} is an event, no object, so this is wrong as well.

What do you want to say?
Should _receiving the gift_ make him/her happy? That would be something along
the lines {.a'o do gleki lonu do te dunda le se zbasu be mi}.

If you mean something nonspecific involving the object,
you can also use {.a'o do gleki tu'a le se zbasu be mi}.


mi'e la .van. mu'o

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