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> > > > > > > > But to say: > > > This car seats six. > > > I think we need > > > ci tomo studon xei. > > > > Is this stu+don? I don't think the idiom > > is terribly clear. > > > You're right. It's not. > > > I would render that in E-o as > > "Cxi auxto havas ses sidlokojn" > > or > > "Cxi auxto sidigus ses homojn" > > > > Maybe the ceqli equivalent of the latter > > would be something like > > > > ci tomo stufa xei [jin]. > > > I do like that better. And, it just hit me, that's another > opportunity for a be- word. I don't have a word for "fit" yet, but > when I do we'd have the pattern: > > xei (fit) ci tomo. ci tomo be(fit)xei. > Or, for that matter, ci tomo fei bestu xei.