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Re: transitive/intransitive



> > 
> > > 
> > > 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.