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.
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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 |