[lojban-beginners] Re: Two form of verbs.

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 12/8/05, Opi Lauma <opi_lauma@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I like the possibility to construct such forms and I
> would like to have such possibility in Lojban. I
> allows to be more specific. For example I can say "I
> red the book". But I want to say more. I also want to
> say that I do not read it now, I have finished to reed
> it. Moreover I read it till and.

You can make that distinction with {ca'o}, which indicates
an ongoing event, and {mo'u} which indicates the completion
of an event:

    mi pu ca'o tcidu le cukta
    "I was reading the book."

    mi pu mo'u tcidu le cukta
    "I read the book (till the end)."

mu'o mi'e xorxes