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Sentence #2998636

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 gleki gleki January 22, 2014 January 22, 2014 at 6:36:06 AM UTC link Permalink

la tom pu ja'a djica lo nu ri gleki = Tom really wanted to be happy.

gleki gleki July 30, 2015 July 30, 2015 at 12:16:53 PM UTC link Permalink

no reply. changing

filipos filipos July 31, 2015 July 31, 2015 at 5:53:43 PM UTC link Permalink

{kau} was there to mark focus, as some people do.
{la .tom. pu ja'a djica lo du'u ri gleki} = "Tom really wanted to be happy."
{la .tom. pu ja'a djica lo du'u ri gleki kei kau} ~
{lo se ja'a djica be la .tom. du'u ri gleki} = "What Tom really wanted was to be happy."

Some people mark focus with {ba'e}. I do not subscribe to that in my personal usage, since I distinguish focus from emphasis.

Given these considerations, could you leave the original translation and add alternatives as you see fit (possibly even including {nu} in place of {du'u})?

gleki gleki July 31, 2015 July 31, 2015 at 6:25:33 PM UTC link Permalink

changed back

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #1898016What Tom really wanted was to be happy..

la .tom. pu ja'a djica lo du'u ri gleki kei kau

added by filipos, January 21, 2014
➜ #1898016What Tom really wanted was to be happy.

linked by filipos, January 21, 2014
la .tom. pu ja'a djica lo du'u ri gleki

edited by gleki, July 30, 2015
la .tom. pu ja'a djica lo du'u ri gleki kei kau

edited by gleki, July 31, 2015