Re: [lojban-beginners] Possession with "le le ..."

[".alyn.post." <alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org>]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 07:49:21AM -0700, Ben Foppa wrote:
> Lojban for Beginners says "...consider how you would say le tamne pe
> le ninmu klama 'the woman traveller's cousin' with this kind of
> nesting. You could flip it around as le le ninmu klama tamne — but
> then, how can you tell where the 'possessor' ends and where the
> 'possessee' begins?"
> 
> I wonder why a construct like "le le ninmu klama cu tamne" wouldn't
> work, to separate the argument to the first "le" (which is "ninmu
> klama"), from the argument to the second "le" (which is "tamne"). Is
> the purpose of "cu" not simply to separate two selbri when they are
> consecutive arguments, or when one is the argument to another?
> 

You can use {ku} to terminate the inner {le}:

  le le ninmu klama ku tamne

-alyn
-- 
.i ma'a lo bradi ku penmi gi'e du

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