Re: [lojban] Re: Question on "a lot of water"

[Yann Le Du <yann.ledu@noos.fr>]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Jorge Llambías wrote:

> You need a gadri in front of {ni djacu}, for example
> {lo ni djacu cu barda}. That would say that the amount
> of (something) being water is big.
> 
> More directly you can say {le djacu cu barda}, 
> "the quantity of water is big". 
> 
> If you want to say something about a certain big amount of water,
> then {le djacu barda} or {le barda djacu}, or {le barda je djacu}:
> "the thing I have in mind, which I describe as big and water."
> For example: 
> 
>    mi pu zi mo'u vimcu le barda djacu poi carvi ti
>    "I just finished removing the lot of water which fell here."
> 
> If you don't have a specific lot of water in mind, then {lo}
> is better:
> 
>    ca ro nu carvi kei lo barda djacu cu nerbi'o le zdani
>    "Every time it rains, a lot of water gets inside the house."

mi troci le cusku

je'e .a'u .i le do cusku cu sidju mi jbotadni

mi pu zi mo'u tadni vofi'upamu lei cukta pe la nik.nikolas. joi la 
robin.tr.


Also, could we say {ti djacu cu barda} to mean "( (this here) quantity of 
water ) is big" ?  

mu'o

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Yann Le Du

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