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On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:48:36PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> la djan cusku di'e
> >In "pu'i" there is a potentiality which at some point becomes realized.
> >With just "pu'i" alone, we can't say when it becomes realized; an external
> >PU cmavo is needed to nail that down. So "can and has" is really the
> >translation for capu'i rather than pu'i by itself. Similarly, pupu'i
> >would be "could and did", and bapu'i would be "can and will".
>
> Then we can say:
>
> capu'i == caca'a
> pupu'i == puca'a
> bapu'i == baca'a
> pu'i == ca'a
I don't the above follows from what djan says. But:
capu'i == ca ka'e je pu ca'a
pupu'i == pu ka'e je pu pu ca'a
bapu'i == ba ka'e je ba pu ca'a
etc.
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