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Langue: English
Alkanadi (Voir le profil) 14 août 2014 08:52:25
1 - Kelkaj homoj
2 - Iuj homoj
Or, is it like other languages where you would literally say Some from among the people?
3 - Kelkaj de homoj
sudanglo (Voir le profil) 14 août 2014 09:06:27
Iuj supozas ke - some people imagine that
tommjames (Voir le profil) 14 août 2014 09:10:10
Iom da homoj = a few/some people (quantity)
Iuj homoj = some people (indefinite identity)
Kelke da homoj = a small bunch of people
So the translation depends on the meaning or nuance you're looking for.
nornen (Voir le profil) 15 août 2014 06:09:33
tommjames:Kelkaj homoj = a few/some people (quantity)Do you make a semantic difference between "kelkaj homoj" and "kelke da homoj"? It sounds like "kelke da" is less than "kelkaj"?
Iom da homoj = a few/some people (quantity)
Iuj homoj = some people (indefinite identity)
Kelke da homoj = a small bunch of people
So the translation depends on the meaning or nuance you're looking for.
tommjames (Voir le profil) 15 août 2014 08:27:26
nornen:Do you make a semantic difference between "kelkaj homoj" and "kelke da homoj"? It sounds like "kelke da" is less than "kelkaj"?Quantity-wise I'd consider them more or less the same. The only difference in my mind is with analogy to the difference between "multaj homoj" and "multe da homoj", where the latter phrase suggests some kind of grouping and in the former each person is separate. That's just me though; not everybody observes this difference.