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I say "okay" quite often, both when speaking English and my native language, which is Swedish. Here are some examples of how I use it: To describe something, replacing words like fine, good enough, ...
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As usual, I was mentally translating everyday, common things the other day for practice and wanted to say blah blah blah, but I wasn't sure if there was an already established way of saying this in ...
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Since both i.e. and e.g. both come from the Latin id est and exempli gratia, respectively, does Esperanto use the same abbreviations? If not, then what are the Esperanto abbreviations?
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I’ve seen (in the romaneto “Gerda malaperis”): Kion vi volas diri? However, I suppose that just like in English, there is a slight difference between “What do you mean?” and “What do you want to say?...
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In order to express "Y'all", do you simply say "vi ĉiuj"? Addendum: I thought my question was clear - I know "you" and "vi" are equivalent - both used for singular and plural "yous" (hihi). Language ...
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What do we use to show frustration in Esperanto texting/tweeting? In English, for example we would use, "ugh" or maybe "sigh"
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In German this would be the verb zurechtkommen, it's meaning being very close to to succeed, but emphasis being more on the not failing part. Examples in English: It was hard to raise two children on ...
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From Star Wars, the word lightsaber. For those who might not know, in Star Wars a lightsaber is pretty much a glowing blade of laser light that slices through anything. I know that luma or hela might ...
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What's feedback in Esperanto? I used respondo (for example, biologia respondo for biofeedback), but I think it may not be the best translation.
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What are the grammatically correct alternatives of the phrase “kio la fek”? Related question that led to this one: Isn't “kio la fek” grammatically wrong?
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In Esperanto, we write devus whenever we translate "should," but it literally translates as would have to. Why is this, and are there any alternatives to devus?
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I am looking for pangrams to use as sample text when choosing fonts for text in Esperanto. A pangram is a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet, such as "The quick brown fox jumps over ...
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Sometimes I use Google Translate to translate text from/to English/French to/from Esperanto. Is Google Translate good enough, or should I avoid it?
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The idiom "It's all Greek to me" means that something is not understandable. Different languages have different variants of this. How would I express this in Esperanto?
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The English expression what if is an idiom meaning what would happen if, what do I do if, or something similar. An example is What if they don't like my cake? Is there an expression in Esperanto for ...
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