19.17. List of Elidable Terminators

The following list shows all the elidable terminators of Lojban. The first column is the terminator, the second column is the selma'o that starts the corresponding construction, and the third column states what kinds of grammatical constructs are terminated. Each terminator is the only cmavo of its selma'o, which naturally has the same name as the cmavo.

be'o

BE

sumti attached to a tanru unit

boi

PA/BY

number or lerfu string

do'u

COI/DOI

vocative phrases

fe'u

FIhO

ad-hoc modal tags

ge'u

GOI

relative phrases

kei

NU

abstraction bridi

ke'e

KE

groups of various kinds

ku

LE/LA

description sumti

ku'e

PEhO

forethought mekso

ku'o

NOI

relative clauses

li'u

LU

quotations

lo'o

LI

number sumti

lu'u

LAhE/NAhE+BO

sumti qualifiers

me'u

ME

tanru units formed from sumti

nu'u

NUhI

forethought termsets

se'u

SEI/SOI

metalinguistic insertions

te'u

various

mekso conversion constructs

toi

TO

parenthetical remarks

tu'u

TUhE

multiple sentences or paragraphs

vau

(none)

simple bridi or bridi-tails

ve'o

VEI

mekso parentheses