[lojban] Re: Already. Yet. Still. Whole. Only.

["Jorge Llambías" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 7/11/06, Yanis Batura <ybatura@mail.ru> wrote:
> 1) I have a book.

      mi ponse lo cukta

> 2) I have a book already.

      mi xa'o ponse lo cukta

See: <http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=xa%27o>

> 3) I haven't a book.

      mi na ponse lo cukta

> 4) I haven't a book yet.

      mi na xa'o ponse lo cukta

> 5) I still haven't a book.

     mi za'o na ponse lo cukta

(4 and 5 say esentially the same thing, that's why {xa'o} is never
really necessary with negation. Notice that the order is important!)


> 6) I have slept for seven hours.

      mi sipna ze'a lo cacra be li ze

> 7) I have slept only for seven hours.

      mi sipna ze'i lo cacra be li ze

> 8) I have slept for whole seven hours.

      mi sipna ze'u lo cacra be li ze

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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