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Re: [lojban] On not using du for is



On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 08:29:30PM -0000, hfroark wrote:
> So, if I were speaking of my mother as it is usually understood in
> English, I would say "ti mamta mi". "ti du le mi mamta" isn't
> wrong, but means the same as "ti du le mi pe mamta" and 

That's not grammatical; "ti du mi pe le mamta" is, but is very
strange and certainly isn't the same thing.

> Now my question is how would I best express "ti du le mamta pe mi"
> without the "du"?

ti pe mi cu mamta
ti poi mamta cu srana mi

Probably several others.

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