Re: Expressing "that's how"
From: | # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, March 23, 2005, 22:09 |
B. Garcia wrote:
>As I was sitting around doing nothing, i began to think of various
>sentence patterns and how would I write them in Ayhan. I came across
>on that's an issue -- how to express "that is how" in Ayhan, when
>Ayhan lacks "to be". I just can't get my mind around how to do it. I
>can't even think of a messy solution.
You may use a demonstrative correlative of way
or an equivalent of "in this way", "like this", "you see", or any verb to
wich you give that meaning like "you have"
"this is how you build a house" = "you have you to build a house"
or you can create an impersonnal verb meaning "be-how"
- Max