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356 rokuni - nai
(c) &$!f7?~xoztilrh< c=$I,~~~wcL. 1 <B~TI.>~,L~~S
BiFU < .
(He hardly knows about France, but he talks as if he knew a lot about
it.)

(I went shopping, and got as far as to a department store, but I came
home without doing much shopping (lit. shopping properly) because I
felt sick while shopping.)
I%( wn ITV
(e) BoAii6 < CLZ& Lfdb10
(My dog hardly does any tricks.)

Along with rokuni - nai there is another structure similar to it; i.e., rokuna N
- nai which is used to indicate that s.t. animate does not or cannot do some-
thing decent / sufficient / satisfactory. Examples follow:

(1) a. &d$jZi23< &&b>3=& LQt\,
(He doesn't give us even a decent greeting.)
b. 5-72-b23< a+$$.&%bf&t\,
(Nancy cannot write even a satisfactory letter.)
c. &oy$bi3< QXQB LTb>Qt\b LL~,
(It appears that they are not eating decent meals.)
d. &oRi23< &R3 B&~T~>&L\,
(That dog is not eating decent food.)
e. ~oK&ii3< mge~at\,
(That professor is not a professor to speak of.)
If the prenominal form rokuna in all the examples except (le) is replaced by
the adverbial form rokuni the meaning will change. The rokuna version indi-
cates that an action does occur but not in a satisfactory manner; whereas the
rokuni version indicates that the action hardly takes place.