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how do we say: "he called me a friend" or "i imagined the car on the street in the garage"?

(tricky question, huh?) :)


lesson 7

I saw John in the dining room eating. Lida mi Najoncedi pyo futodi fulode.

but this means that i was eating when i saw john in the dining room.
how can we say that john was eating when i saw him?



bikonda means "to understand", but i would call "understand" "cinkonda". what do you think?


even in the 8th lesson i have difficulty saying "meki" instead of "kibe".
(the same goes for "maveki" and "kivakxe".) :)


lesson 8

Were the sandwiches under the cookies in the stove? Meki tawmoydada
nicanfudi nizufudi topyodu jinbyadi?

i think it's "tawmoyda" rather than "tawmoydada".



why there is a difference between open and closed adjectives? wouldn't it be
sufficient to use the verb-suffixes?



reference manual:
Scalar relational states:
	mental states, default = P/F-s verb:

layout: shouldn't this belong to the headline?
---------------------------------------------

  -ta	  emotions & desires (fear, be angry, love, want, be happy, be
	    eager, like/enjoy, be greedy, be emotional, have fun)
  -kon	  other mental states (think, know, remember, be conceited,
	    understand, wonder, be intent/focused on, imagine)
  -li	physical relationship, default = P/F-s verb (hear, be allergic
	  to, taste, feel pain in, detect (eg. an instrument)/sense, be
	  hungry for, to be/feel cold in)
  -tu	other scalar relationships, default = P/F-s open adjective
	  (about/involved with, similar to, taste like, compatible with,
	  ready to/for)
Scalar non-relational states, default = P-s adjective:

(the same goes for the next headline)



what is "ten" in nasendi?



"zidi" does not exist in the nasendi-english dictionary. what is it?




bye guys!

kastebyo,
stefo,
sts.