Sure. All bridi are sentences. It has articles, prepositions,
conjunctions, and pronouns, too (as well as of course, other things, as
mentioned, like what might be called "pro-verbs" not to be confused with
proverbs ;-))
--gejyspa
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: learning lojban
At 11:22 AM 3/1/2007, you wrote:
> Well, yes and no. There really aren't nouns and verbs. The same
>words function as nouns, verbs, adjective and adverbs. For example, in
>English, "blue" is general considered to be an adjective, and "sky" is
>generally considered to be a noun. But in the sentence, "The paint
>store ran out of sky blue", suddenly sky functionas as an adjective and
>blue the noun. The equivalent in lojban is "lo tsani blanu" and "lo
>blanu tsani". In tanru sumti, all except the rightmost brivla function
>as adjectives, and the last as a noun, and in tanru selbri, all but the
>rightmost brivla function as adverbs, and the rightmost as a verb "lo
>blanu tsani cu sutra bajra" => "The blue sky runs quickly" "lo tsani
>blanu cu bajra sutra" => "The sky blue is runningly fast" . The key
>here is that they FUNCTION as certain parts of speech, but can take on
>any of those roles, depending on the slot, so the language doesn't have
>any fixed nouns, verbs, adjecvtive, or adverbs.
>
> --gejyspa
Does it have sentences?
-Carl
