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