Re: [lojban] word for "action"

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- "xahlee.org" <yahoo@xahlee.org> wrote:
> what's the lojban word for "action"?
> 
> context: i'm trying to name a file wwhere in English i'd like to call
> verbs.txt. In lojban, i'd like to say "action valsi".

There isn't really a word that covers the same kind of things
that are called "actions" in English.

{zukte} only covers volitional actions, mostly things done by
people, but not a rock falling for example.

{gasnu} only agentive actions. There is no gasnu when
x1 meets x2, for example.

{fasnu} covers all actions, but it will probably also
include things that are not actions in English, for example
states.

> btw, is speed "ni sultra" or "nilsutra"?

nilsutra is a lujvo (compound word) formed from "ni sutra".
nil- is a rafsi (combining form) of "ni".

So both "ni sutra" and "nilsutra" are "amount of being fast".

mu'o mi'e xorxes



	
		
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