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Transitive/intransitive



We of course have "fa", which can make an intransitive verb 
transitive, as in "calfa" and "parfa", as well as working in other 
ways much like the Esperano '-igi'.  Now, it occurs to me that 
English does quite well in most instances by using the same form of 
the verb for both intransitive and transitive.  

The food is cooking.
He is cooking the food.
He stopped.
He stopped me.
The paper burns.
I burn the paper.

It seems that only the fact that a direct object never shows up tells 
the listener that we have an intransitive verb.

Now, can ceqli operate that way?  At least, nonformal ceqli that also 
can do without articles and such?

to komxo gi tunu.
da gi tunu to komxo.
da pa par.
da pa par go.
to buma bern.
go bern to buma.

I don't know how far to go with this.  In theory, since adjectives 
are all just 'stative' verbs in ceqli, we could have:

to hon hoq.
The book is red.
go hoq to hon.
I redden the book.

Though, as an English speaker, I'd be very much more inclined to 
use "hoqfa."

With prepositions, however, there is always an object anyway (I 
think), so I don't think we can handle it that way.

pani dan spun.
Water is in the spoon.
*go dan pani spun.

Though I don't see why we can't make a compound word:

go spundan pani.   
I in-spoon the water.

I'd say let's allow it, and see what develops.  Reactions?