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On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:41 PM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote: > And Rosta, On 29/08/2012 16:37: > > > > I meant that the predication would be a dependent of oi, so occurring > > in the same sentence. "Oi" could mean "the following sentence", but > > in the sense of "following complete phrase" not "freestanding > > macrosyntagm (i.e. syntagm that is not part of a larger syntagm). > > What are the alternative ways to say "I believe there's fire"? "la sefa > sme fgre jnva'aka"? I'm not quite sure how "sefa" works yet, but the way I would have said it is: la fgro'efa jnva'aka The event in which there's fire, I believe it takes place. (The second argument of jnv- would have to be an event rather than a proposition, since we don't have ways to distinguish propositions from the events they describe.) Presumably there will be a cV'V for expressing an opinion, so that particular case could probably be reduced to something like: ca'a fgro'e mu'o mi'e xorxes