some concepts of japenese grammar adapted to toki pona

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some concepts of japenese grammar adapted to toki pona

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present be+ing=verb+li+lon(verb-te+imasu/arimasu)
I have not other ideas at the moment.
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Raphaël wrote:present be+ing=verb+li+lon(verb-te+imasu/arimasu)
I have not other ideas at the moment.
in tp only the subject could stay right before li. in japanese the addition of "-te" does not make subject, it makes adverb.
to express the present time, tp uses tenpo ni la
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(verb-te+imasu/arimasu), it's japanese grammar, not toki pona. And in this situation it's not an adverb but a verb
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Raphaël wrote:(verb-te+imasu/arimasu), it's japanese grammar, not toki pona.
i know. but the suggested construction "verb+li+lon" is not toki pona either
And in this situation it's not an adverb but a verb
iru/aru is a verb, but ***te (e.g. itte) is an adverb
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日本人ですか?
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Raphaël wrote:present be+ing=verb+li+lon(verb-te+imasu/arimasu)
I have not other ideas at the moment.
Full sentence examples? And this is a post for the "people who want to change toki pona" forum.

It might be more productive to propose a toki pona/japanese hybrid than to get the community to adopt a Japanese-ism. There's about 3-5 reasonably well developed toki pona clones/toki pona derivatives documented on the net.
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Raphaël wrote:日本人ですか?
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or in Chinese 正在
Probably your best bet would be to use lon as a modal.
"mi lon moku." -- I am eating. -- 我正在吃飯。
The problem is it will usually also read as a preposition--> "I am in/on the food"

The suggestion to stick with the established "tenpo ni la" is a good one. Most of the time in toki pona, present progressive is assumed anyway.
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