Re: [lojban-beginners] Beauty vs Beautiful

[selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de>]

la .trans. cu cusku
> How does one say "she is beautiful" as opposed to "she is beauty
> [incarnate]"? Leave the "incarnate" out, I just put that there to
> clarify my meaning. Thanks.

You would use the same metaphor as in English:

    ri ka [ce'u] melbi
    "She is beauty." (the property of being beautiful)

It works as a metaphor because she is so beautiful that you equate her 
with beauty itself.

mi'e la selpa'i mu'o


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