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Exact translation of the pronoun "we"



Dear Lojbanists,


is there an EXACT translation of English pronoun "we"

(the semantics of which is something like:

me, the speaker, and AT LEAST one other person somehow related to me)?


neither mi, nor mi'e do fit:


mi        

KOhA3    

me

pro-sumti: me/we the speaker(s)/author(s); identified by self-vocative


mi'a

KOhA3

we, not you

pro-sumti: me/we the speaker(s)/author(s) & others unspecified, but not you, the listener



we can see from these definitions that both mi and mi'a could mean "me", which is far from what "we" means :)