Re: [lojban] Imperative

[Invent Yourself <xod@sixgirls.org>]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Jorge Llambias wrote:

>
> la cein cusku di'e
>
> >ko tavla fo la lojban.
> >
> >means "Speak in lojban!"
> >
> >but how do you say
> >
> >"Make the bird speak in lojban!"
>
> A direct translation would be:
>
> ko gasnu le nu le cipni cu tavla fo la lojban




Rather than wrapping the desired bridi in a le nu, you can state the bridi
and append "bai ko" (forced by you)




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