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[lojban] where to lookup cmavo?

what does “noi” or “va” mean?

very frequently i need to lookup such grammar words that is the essence 
of lojban, but finding no resource or ways.

The few times over the years i tried the so called lojban dictionary:
http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/
and i don't remember once it was helpful.

Where or how can a learner of lojban, when encountering such a new 
grammar words (cmavo), find out its meaning or usage?

(the few times i tried the cmavo list. Often fruitless there too. For 
some reason most of these words are just not there.)

Thanks.

  Xah
  xah@xahlee.org
  http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/more.html


On Mar 13, 2005, at 7:38 AM, Philip Newton wrote:


On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 23:40:24 -0800, xah lee <xah@xahlee.org> wrote:
>
> le ta cifnu cu sipna = that baby is sleeping = 那婴?在睢

{le ta cifnu} is "the baby associated with that" (same as {le cifnu pe 
ta}).

I think you want either {ta noi cifnu} or {le va cifnu}.

> how to say "the babe is suckling from her mom?"
> (那婴儿在吃他妈的奶)

I'd try {le cifnu cu pinxe lo ladru lo tatru be lo mamta be cy.}. Or
maybe with {lo ladru be lo tatru...} instead of {lo ladru lo
tatru...}; I'm not sure which is better. (One puts "its mothers
breast" into the x2 of {ladru} -- the origin of the milk --, the other
into the x3 of {pinxe} -- the source of the drinking.)

mu'o mi'e .filip.
-- 
Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>



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