Appendix:Lojban/ke
Appearance
Lojban
[edit]Particle
[edit]- start grouping in a tanru (compound word); the group is closed by ke'e
- le pelxu je ke barda finpe ke'e prenu
- “the yellow and large-fish-type of person”, i.e. “the person who is yellow and has got some property of large fishes”
- le sutra ke bunre lorxu cu plipe ga'u le lazni gerku
- The quick brown fox jumps above the lazy dog.
- le pelxu je ke barda finpe ke'e prenu
Usage notes
[edit]- Compare the first example above to this one:
- le pelxu je barda finpe prenu
- “the person who has some property of fishes which are large and yellow”
- Compare the second example to this one:
- "le sutra bunre lorxu cu plipe ga'u le lazni gerku"
- "the swift-kind-of-brown fox jumps above the lazy dog.
- The ke'e is an elidable terminator, which is to say that the ke'e may be elided from the sentence if the parse structure remains the same.