<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Today I am trying to grasp the difference between {net + verb} and {'e' + verb-lu'}</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The way I understand it is, for example with "Sov"</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">net Sov = it is common knowledge that </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">'e' Sovlu' = someone (indefinite) knows that</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thus:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">qama'pu' DIHoHbe' net Sov = It is common knowledge that we don't kill prisoners</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">qama'pu' DIHoHbe' 'e' Sovlu' = It is known / someone knows that we don't kill prisoners</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Similarly with chaw' : </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">qama'pu' DIHoH net chaw'be' = we are not allowed to kill prisoners</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">qama'pu' DIHoH 'e' chaw'lu'be' = someone does not allow us to kill prisoners</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Am I getting it right ?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thanks in advance!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Aurélie</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ghItlhjaj</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div>