Re: [lojban] le pareremo'o selsa'a

["Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org>]

Pierre Abbat wrote:

>On Monday 02 June 2003 10:29, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
>  
>
>>The tense is currently called "present tense" but it's really a
>>participle (can be used as a noun or adjective) and has an imperfective
>>meaning.  I always understood the verse to be metaphorical, that our
>>legs were *standing* (upright/proud/etc) while in your gates.  *If* you
>>want to have that meaning (and I'm not saying you should), there's
>>always .o'a.  If the emphasis is there, again, one could have lo jamfu
>>cu sanli.
>>    
>>
>
>I meant the construction "`omdot hayu" as opposed to just "`omdot". The only 
>other place I remember seeing a construction like that is in the Aramaic 
>part, e.g. Daniel 7:9 "chazeh haweit" "I was beholding".
>
Mmm... Well, at least in Modern Hebrew it is quite well-used, and it's 
very common in Mishnaic Hebrew as well (cf. the common construction "hu 
hayah 'omer"/"he used to say...")  Now, Biblical references... those are 
harder to find, mainly because they're not just popping into my head 
screaming, as they usually do.  Um.

Exod:19:15: "heyu n'qiyim lishloshet yamim"
Num:9:6: "vayihi 'anashim 'asher hayu t'me`im l'nefesh 'adam" (this is a 
better example)
Josh:5:7: "ki `arelim hayu"

I could probably find others (this was done by searching for 
space-heh-yud-vav-space and seeing what sense it made, and giving up 
after finding three)

~mark


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