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Re: [lojban] Young ex-presidents and abandoned houses
On 11/15/2016 8:43 AM, selpahi wrote:
Adjectival participles.
Lojban does not have them, but let's look at the known options for
translating phrases such as "to be a young ex-president" and "to be an
abandoned house". What these have in common is that they contain two
tanru units, at least one of which wants to be preceded by a
tense/aspect/modal. This is not grammatically possible, because
tense/aspect/modal tags apply to entire selbri and not to tanru units,
and they cannot appear in the middle of a tanru. The following
work-arounds are known to be available:
I am having trouble understanding the problem (examples)
Can you put these examples in the form of a sentence to be translated?,
and then provide the "two tanru units" you are referring to?
lojbab
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