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[lojban-beginners] Re: How to use "birti"/"jetnu"/"jinvi"/etc.?




Le jeudi, 15 mai 2003, à 20:05 Europe/Paris, Robin Lee Powell a écrit :
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:56:41AM -0600, c1tk@c1tk.cjb.net wrote:
coi rodo,

What is the correct way to use gismu such as "birti", "jetnu",
"jinvi" which involve a full-blown assertion as one of their
arguments? E.g. how do I transform a statement like "Saddam is
evil" ("la sadam. palci") into "I think Saddam is evil"? What
should I put as the x2 to "jinvi"?

mi jinvi le du'u la xusein. palci

I think :-) you could also use a discursive, like
"pe'i la xusein. palci"
instead of
"mi pensi le du'u la xusein. palci"
(if you want to stick with this example)

See http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter13.html

-Rboni

go'i mo - jexÓm. - zo'o