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All three words express the large quantity of something. AFAIK, kelka resonates more like "several", which implies that it's more than one, but not too many (?). plura has the specific ...
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Example: "Mi preferas, ke ni farbu la domon verda." I used "verde" because the word seemed to describe the verb (how we would paint the house — i.e., what color). But if we use the ...
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A Duolingo exercise asked that "the yellow and white parts of an egg" be translated. I offered "la flavaj kaj blankaj partoj de ovo": plural adjectives because of the plural noun. ...
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Saluton. En la PIV, la biologiaj ordoj finiĝas kun -a (ekz. pleŭronektoformaj, gruformaj, ktp). La sufikso -a estas sufikso por adjektivoj. Sed la donita difino de la PIV similas difinon de nomoj (...
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For example: alia io/iu - something/someone else io ajn malbona - anything bad Are these correct? If not, is there another way to say this kind of thing?
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To say: "You are right.", I know that it is also acceptable to write: "Vi estas prava.", which to me makes sense, because then 'prava' is an adjective, just like in English. ...
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Mi hodiaŭ aŭdis interparoladon en la esperanta kaj unu frazo vekis mian atenton: Sed ĝi estas tute maljuna hundo, preta morti! Por mi estis strange aŭdi tiun preta morti en la rolo de adjektivo. La ...
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Take for instance a simple sentence like "I am right". Should this then technically be "mi estas prave" (or even "mi prave estas") instead of "mi estas prava"? Why do I ask? Because, to me, this seems ...
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Mi lernis ke oni povas konstrui vortojn uzanta la prefikso "mal" por esprimi la malon de la vortoj sen la prefikso: granda ⇒ malgranda varma ⇒ malvarma juna ⇒ maljuna Sed, ĉu oni povas uzi la saman ...
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Consider, in attempting to translate: Ah, you like sushi? Have you tried poke? Both have fish (usually raw) and rice. But sushi is Japanese, while poke is Hawaiian. ↓ Ha, vi ŝatas suŝion, ĉu? Ĉu ...
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In English, there exists a construct which I do not quite understand. The monad rolled around the woods, careful not to fall into the river. The human was careful not to awaken the baby. She was ...
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In Esperanto, there is no strict ordering in regards to adjectives and nouns. Saying "afero beleta" is just as valid as saying "beleta afero" in terms of the rules. However, the de facto convention ...
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I'm wondering how you make a comparison in Esperanto So, I mean, how do you say "The cat is more/less/equally blue than/as the dog" for example (I don't want to just assume that it's exactly the ...
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In saying something like "The group is big" ("La grupo estas granda"), I'm referring to the noun "group" singularly (i.e. the group itself is big). How would I refer to it collectively as in English, ...
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What would be the difference between ending adjectives with -o and with -eco? For example, between saying kolero and kolereco or feliĉo and feliĉeco.
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