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

["Newton, Philip" <Philip.Newton@gedas-onsite.de>]

la gejyspa cu cusku di'e
> Verbs are action or state-of-being words.

And {mlatu} is something like state-of-being-a-cat.

> "le mlatu" is the subject of the sentence,

*nod*

> therefore mlatu is functioning as a noun, not a verb, in that sentence.

I'd probably have agreed with you if you'd said that {le mlatu} is
functioning as a noun. But not {mlatu} by itself.

>   And while it is true that you cannot say lai galtu cu .alp. 
>  You CAN say "lai galtu cu me la .alp"

Whee, you've turned a "noun" into a "verb".

How is that different from turning a "verb" into a "noun" by adding {le}?

> commons nouns (which are brivla, when used as such).

Combinations of gadri + brivla, I'd say.

mu'o mi'e .filip.