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BPFK Section: Numeric Tense

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pc:
> Where? — not in the wiki page when I read it.

No, it was somewhere else, on irc I think.

> This may be useful, but the
> connection with the tense use of {roi} and {re'u} is tenuous.

It's the same thing: n-roi indicates that something happens n times,
n-re'u indicates that it happens for the n-th time (i.e. we are talking
of the n-th repetition.)

> Jorge LlambĂ­as <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar> wrote:I proposed:
>
> number roi = fi'o jai ze'a rapli be li number
> number re'u = fi'o jai ze'a krefu be fi li number
>
> In other words, they tag an interval when the main event
> is repeated number times in the case of roi, or for the
> numberth time in the case of re'u.
>





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