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No.1378  

What does this mean:
do pa roi je pa ki'o roi drani

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>> No.1380  

"You, once and a thousand times, are correct."

"paroi" is "once", literally "1-time". "paki'oroi" is "a thousand times", literally "1-3digitComma-times". Both expressions act like tenses, e.g. "pu" or "ba". In this case, "je" asserts that both tenses apply to the sentence.

>> No.1382  

>>1380

Is that "once and a thousand times" an English idiom of sorts? I (whose native tongue isn't English) failed to instantly recognise the meaning.

>> No.1383  

>>1382

No. It's a legal, if awkward, sentence, but not an idiom. Normally one would say something like "You were correct twenty times.", with the number of times after the verb. I suppose "You were correct once and a thousand times." is closer to the Lojban, since the tense is in its natural place in the Lojban sentence.



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