Closest scope grouping operator; groups surrounding words within compound words (tanru); that is, it strengthens the association between immediately neighboring words.
le xunre kerfa bo smani
the haired monkey who is red
compare to:
le xunre kerfa smani
the monkey who has red hair
Can be used as terminator to end a string of time tense indicating cmavo (at the beginning of a sentence).
.ibazabo la lojban. cu pu co'a zmadu la loglan. leka vajni [1]
After some time, Lojban began to exceed Loglan in terms of importance.