Re: EXERCISE: Meanings of to be

 >1. forming predicate nominative: He IS happy

a- : "there is" or "there are" ; tags all predicates.
tica : happy, being happy, happiness
kama : 3p. pronoun (he/him/his, she/her, it/its)

Kama atica.
"He there's-happiness."


 >2. equivalence: Today is Wednesday.

lai(+noun) : "to be a/the" (equative)

Cali pihi alaicali tuli.
"Day now there's-be-day three."

 >3. existance: To be, or not to be.

kule : "existence"
maikule : "to have-existence"
haikule : "to experience-existence"

Maikule wapelo maikugule.
"Have-existence with-alternative have-inexistence."


 >4. English use, for creating verb forms: He is walking.

nope. but i've always found it strange that this use of "to be" is shared by
as different languages as english and japanese.

 >5. Numerical equivalence: One plus one is two.

cani : "become"
nilu-nya : "result-into"

Pina acuta pina anilunya pimi.
"One there's-adding one there's-result-into two."


 >Do you differenciate?

yes.



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