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On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:16 PM, selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de How about: zenba [co'a ko'a] lo ka ma kau ni glare kei lo se sumji be li 273 [bei lo me ko'a moi] Valid but unnecessarily clumsy; you're being forced to describe the subtraction when the actual content of the subtraction is essentially superfluous. Also, I'd suggest: zenba lo ka ce'u kelvo ma kau kei lo se sumji be li 273 if we were going to use that structure anyway. Let {ni} be weird/vague, use {ma kau} and numbers when you have precise things in mind.
You can use {lo ka ce'u ma kau kelvo} in this case, but my suggestion was meant to be a general one. There isn't always a selbri you can use in place of that kelvo (because not every selbri has a scale/quantity place). Also, I prefer {ni} not to be "weird".
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