[lojban-beginners] Re: Nouns and verbs (was: learning lojban)

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Thursday 01 March 2007 16:33, Karl Naylor wrote:
> On 01/03/07, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> > There are nouns and verbs in Lojban, and also conjunctions, prepositions,
>
> Could you give examples of nouns and verbs?  I'm not sure what you're
> referring to.

A brivla is a verb (whether its translation in any other language is a verb) 
and a cmene is a noun. We can say {le mlatu cu blabi} or equally well {le 
blabi cu mlatu}, because they're both verbs (i.e. brivla). In English "the 
cat is white", "cat" is a noun and "white" is an adjective, so you can't 
exchange them and say "the white is cat". In {lai .alp. cu galtu}, {alp} and 
{galtu} are different parts of speech; you can't exchange them and say {lai 
galtu cu .alp}.

phma