[lojban-beginners] Re: le mi mlatu

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

la xavier cusku di'e

> la brus. cusku di'e:
> > i. la .umal. goi cmalu mlatu pe mi 
> 
> Your meaning is clear, but I think you must specify which pro-sumti you
> are defining. Thus, {la .umal. goi ko'a cmalu mlatu pe mi}. the {pe mi}
> at the end strikes me as incorrect, but I can't tell you the correct
> usage.

Right, {pe mi} can only attach to a sumti, not to a selbri.
You can say:

   la umal du le cmalu mlatu pe mi (= le mi cmalu mlatu)
   Oumma is the small cat of mine. 

or, if you prefer to say it with selbri, you could say:

   la umal cmalu mlatu gi'e memimoi
   Oumma is a small cat and is mine.

> > i. ko'a rinsa mi na'o mi klama se mi xabju
> 
> I think you misordered a few things and dropped a modal here, {ko'a na'o
> rinsa mi ki'u mi klama le mi se xabju}.

After {ki'u} you need a sumti, so {ki'u le nu mi klama ...}.

{na'o} is a valid sumti tcita too, so you could say:

   ko'a rinsa mi na'o lo'e nu mi klama le mi se xabju

although it is not as yet quite clear what the semantics of the
complement of no'a as sumti tcita should be.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

   


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