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Re: [lojban] Re: The Lojban Reference Grammar in Russian language



On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 4:43:39 AM UTC+4, Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Monday, February 11, 2013 07:55:06 la gleki wrote:
> However, one can choose "noun+genitive" and this will be grammatically
> correct in Russian.
> So we could change the example from {ti zdani mi} to {ti zdani lo
> gerku}="this is-a-house+of a-dog"="это дом собаки-GENITIVE".

Or "это его/её/их дом" - those are genitive. English is the same way, except
that the genitive of "I, thou, we, you" is missing, rather than present but
not used as a possessive, as in Russian. "His" and "their" are genitives (I
had to look "their" up); the rest are possessive adjectives.

I looked up "house" (verb) on Wiktionary and found "помещать". Could it or
some other sort of "мещать" be used in "this houses a dog"?

Well, помещать can rather mean "to put into". There is no such verb as мещать. Don't ask me why. I never liked the grammar of Russian or English. In fact i speak english by just recalling most frequent templates that i've heard in my life.

Of course you might find an appropriate word but i'm sure it will be very unusual. I don't want any crazy mutilated Russia/English/whatever in one the very first waves.

ta'onai {zdani=se xabju}. So of course we may assume that {ti zdani mi=ti se xabju mi}. {xabju=to inhabit=населять}. As {se} is usually expressed using passive voice in Russian then {ti se xabju mi = это населяется мной}.
It's very unusual probably as unusual as English "this one is inhabited by me".
Do we need that in a popular textbook?


Pierre
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