The cmavo of NU can participate in the construction of lujvo of a particularly simple and well-patterned kind. Consider that old standard example, klama :

The selbri nu klama [kei] has only one place, the event-of-going, but the full five places exist implicitly between nu and kei , since a full bridi with all sumti may be placed there. In a lujvo, there is no room for such inside places, and consequently the lujvo nunkla ( nun- is the rafsi for nu ), needs to have six places:

Here the first place of nunklama is the first and only place of nu , and the other five places have been pushed down by one to occupy the second through the sixth places. Full information on nu , as well as the other abstractors mentioned in this section, is given in Chapter 11 .

For those abstractors which have a second place as well, the standard convention is to place this place after, rather than before, the places of the brivla being abstracted. The place structure of nilkla , the lujvo derived from ni klama , is the imposing:

It is not uncommon for abstractors to participate in the making of more complex lujvo as well. For example, nunsoidji , from the veljvo

has the place structure

where the d2 place has disappeared altogether, being replaced by the places of the seltau. As shown in Example 12.60 , the ordering follows this idea of replacement: the seltau places are inserted at the point where the omitted abstraction place exists in the tertau.

The lujvo nunsoidji is quite different from the ordinary asymmetric lujvo soidji , a “soldier desirer” , whose place structure is just

A nunsoidji might be someone who is about to enlist, whereas a soidji might be a camp-follower.

One use of abstract lujvo is to eliminate the need for explicit kei in tanru: nunkalri gasnu means much the same as nu kalri kei gasnu , but is shorter. In addition, many English words ending in -hood are represented with nun- lujvo, and other words ending in “-ness” or “-dom” are often representable with kam- lujvo ( kam- is the rafsi for ka ); kambla is “blueness” .

Even though the cmavo of NU are long-scope in nature, governing the whole following bridi, the NU rafsi should generally be used as short-scope modifiers, like the SE and NAhE rafsi discussed in Section 12.9 .

There is also a rafsi for the cmavo jai , namely jax , which allows sentences like

explained in Section 11.10 , to be rendered with lujvo:

In making a lujvo that contains jax- for a selbri that contains jai , the rule is to leave the fai place as a fai place of the lujvo; it does not participate in the regular lujvo place structure. (The use of fai is explained in Section 9.12 and Section 10.22 .)