George Boeree | Re: [LinguaFrancaNova] New question - was: LFN permete modas diferente.

Alo, Bjorn.

europidgin wrote:

> I wonder if God also have an answer to this :-)
>
> In English you can say:
>
> "I painted the door" and "the door is painted"
>
> In LFN the same sentences are:
>
> "Io pintava la porta" and "La porta es pintada". Right?

La prima es coreta.  Numero du deve eser "La porta eseva pintada", si tu
desira la pasada forma.

>
> Could we save usselves from learning a suffix????

En engles, la pasada e la partisipio pasiva es la mesma.  Io pensa ce es
plu bon retenir la du, per ce los a sensos diferente.

Justa la ora,

Jorj

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