Appendix:Lojban/ka

Particle

 * 1)  Indicates the quality or property of the following clause; -ness, -ty, -hood.
 * simlu le ka rarna
 * It seems to be natural (lit. seems the naturalness).
 * la meiris. jinvi le du'u le ka bunre cu melbi
 * Mary thinks that the color brown (lit. brownness) is beautiful.
 * le ka titla cu vrusi lo sakta
 * Sweetness is a flavor of sugar.

Usage notes

 * This is an abstractor which applied to a selbri returns a sumti which describes the quality of that selbri. For example, for the selbri, ka blanu would mean "blueness".
 * The elidable terminator for a phrase begun with ka is.
 * Use kei only if it has an effect on the parse structure and that effect is desirable; otherwise kei can be elided.