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Both words seem to be defined as 'to smell'.

Ĉu la verbo "paniki" estas transitiva aŭ netransitiva verbo? Laŭ PIV ĝi estas transitiva verbo, sed laŭ ReVo ĝi estas netransitiva verbo, kies transitiva uzo estas evitinda. Estas malkongruo inter ...

How are cooking recipes written in Esperanto? Cooking recipes are a very special genre with respect to verb form, in German (my mother tongue) the infinitive is used as a substitute for the ...

What Esperanto verb form is used for sounds in comics when the sound cannot be described easily by spelling it out? An example is English sigh, German seufz (note the pure verb stem being used here, a ...

In a text written in Hebrew, it's author, Polish Jewish esperantist Icchak Kominkowski, speaks about a friend named "Kola Adzaj", from Africa, who visited Warsaw at the occasion of the 1937 World ...

Committing rape is generally rendered in the E-o texts I read by "perforto", or "seksperforto". This formula just falls too flat on my ears. There is a beautiful and telling E-o root-verb, trudi, ...

For example, I've come across two different words, 'futuro' and 'estonteco'. According to several dictionaries 'futuro' relates to the future tense, whereas 'estonteco' refers to a future time. How ...

Mi ie legis la frazon "La kvanto da fiŝoj en la maro pli kaj pli malmultas.". La vorto "malmultas" iomete ĝenas min, ĉar "malmultas" signifas "estas malmulte da". Iel mi sentas, ke "malmultiĝas" estus ...

Ĉu la sufikso -em- signifas longdaŭran tendencon al la radika vorto, aŭ ĉu nur momentan deziron por ĝi? Mi demandas pro ĉi tiu demando en kiu oni proponas dormema kiel tradukon de la angla vorto ...

What is the correct way to say “i am sleepy” in esperanto? Google translate insists - erroneously - on “Mi dormas” (I am sleeping / I sleep), but that’s not what i’m looking for. A person that is ...

From what I've seen so far, roots never end in a suffix or start with a prefix. I've reasoned that it should be that way: If roots contained affixes, it would be confusing and give the impression ...

En Tekstaro (Robinsono Kruso) mi trovis: [...] mi eble estus povinta surterigi la tutan ŝipŝarĝon, pecon post pecon Estis enuige vagi, tagon post tagon Mi komprenus ekz. meti pecon post ...

In many West-European languages, the word or expression to mark polite requests ("please", "bitte", "s'il vous plaît") can be used with or without an (additional) verb (usually in imperative). The ...

Kiel havas kelkajn signifojn. Estas malfacile distingi aŭ distingigi du el ili. Ekzemple: Kiel infano mi spertis feliĉajn jarojn. "As a child" kaj "like a child" estas ĝustaj tradukaĵoj de kiel ...

Mi trovis vin manĝi The most likely way to interpret this is I found you eating, meaning that it is you whom I found, it is you who was eating, and you were eating when I found you. Here, manĝi is a "...

In my math book, it describes "the projection of b onto a." Esperanto translates "onto" as "en" + an o-word in the accusative. This effect on consonants is obvious because they end in -o when ...

I can tell the difference betweeen a quantity and the presence of a quality. rapido - speed / rapideco - quickness longo - length / longeco - longness pezo - weight / pezeco - heaviness I thought ...

Is there any specific rule which forbids the same suffix applied twice in a row? Context: I've randomly tried to imagine what programming variables would be called in Esperanto and realized that "...

I'd like to help translate the Django Girls tutorial to Esperanto. That tutorial is a written step-by-step instruction guiding readers/learners through almost everything needed to build a functional ...

I've been learning Esperanto on my own, and recently found the -aĵ- suffix. As far as my understanding goes, this is used to get the concrete/physical/real version of a concept. For example, havaĵo, ...

Would using (for example) cyrillic for writing in Esperanto be considered correct? Екземпле, чу чи тиу фразо естас коректа ен Есперанто? Се ви компренас серба цирила алфабето, ви повус капабли ...

Is there an explicit reason for -o, -a, -e, -i? The longer ones vaguely remind me of similar words/constructs in different languages that influenced Esperanto, but the very basic ones seem completely ...

La Angla havas "Now," kaj "Next," por indiki novan aktualaĵon. Ekzemple, jen ĉi tiuj: "Next, we move on to logarithms." aŭ (de la ekspoziciaĵo de John Oliver) "And now, this." Kiel oni diras ...

Saluton! It is to my understanding that cardinal numbers are constructed with a -a prefix. First - 1st - unua Second - 2nd - dua ~ Tenth - 10th - deka Based on this, would "eleventh" be deka unua ...

Ŝajnas a mi, ke "pove", de "povas", ne estas vorto, laŭ La Plena, sed mi pensus, ke "pove" signifus ion similan kiel "eble" aŭ "kapable." Kion vi pensas? Feel free to correct my Esperanto!

Infinitives do not have case markers. "Mi ŝatas lerni" is the typical order, and so is "egzameni asisti la detektivon". But could "lerni ŝatas mi" work, noting that "mi" is not in accusative and is ...

Why is this nonstandard Esperanto? "Kio estas en la bovlo?" versus "Kioj estas en la bovlo?" when you're pretty sure you're asking about multiple items. This also applies if you're wondering what ...

This year I passed the KER B2 exam and I'm now already contemplating what it would take to reach the next level ... other than time :) Is there any advice to share on the preparation from intermediate ...

In my free time, I'm translating a book to Esperanto as a way of learning. Of the character names, some of them have 'x' in their names. I thought I would keep them, since I'm using diphongs, so Lux ...

A couple of times when arguing with someone on facebook (an important procrastination activity) I wanted to say something like "something happening would be as if something else happened", as in say "...

Kion vi ekkrius/dirus, kiam vi trovus subite kaj neatendante ion aparte malpuran, naŭzan, malbonodoran, ktp? Mi ne povis trovi bonan esprimon por tio. Mi nur trovis en mia nederlanda-Esperanto-...

Saluton! Mi devas traduki retejajn tekstojn, kie aperas ambaŭ anglaj vortoj "item" kaj "element". La diferencon inter la du bone klarigas tiu ĉi paĝo: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31427117/...

Ĉu estas gramatike ĝusta la jena frazo el Tekstaro (Artikoloj el Monato)?: Temas eĉ ne tiom pri la enlitaj momentoj, kiel pri ties prezento. Ĉu ne devas nepre esti kiom pri anstataŭ kiel pri?

Mi legas la libron La Fermita Urbo de István Nemere. En tiu libro la aŭtoro uzas ne tute Esperantigitajn nomojn, ekzemple Terlik. Mi prononcus tion kiel Térlik, kun akcento sur la unua silabo (la ...

tl;dr: Is "pretendi" an appropriate translation of the English "to claim" in the sense of an insurance claim? According to ReVo, "to claim" is simply "pretendi". However, the definitions (there and ...

The English proverb "add fuel to the fire" means "to worsen a situation or conflict, to cause it to become more intense". Similar proverbs also exist in other languages, for example in Dutch ("olie op ...

In Esperanto, why does ĉiu mean "every" when ĉi serves elsewhere as a proximal prefix (e.g. ĉi-flanke) and -u is a suffix meaning "one"? Why does this not mean "this one" just as ti+ -u means "that ...

In English you can say pro-whatever to say that you are in favour of something, such as pro-independence. I sometimes see people use the same suffix in Esperanto such as in mi estas pro-eŭropa. This ...

Mi volas diri "smaller". Ĉu estas ajna alieco en signifo inter "pli malgranda" kaj "malpli granda"? Ĉu ili estas ĝuste samaj? I want to say "smaller". Is there any difference in meaning between "pli ...

En la angla, laŭ mia kompreno estas tri elektoj por artikoloj: La difina artikolo: the man who lives around the corner La nedifina artikolo: a dog Forlaso de artikolo: human rights En Esperanto ...

I am learning Esperanto since january and I am kinda starting to understand how it works, but I am doing this project from school where I needed to write a text about me since the project is learning ...

I watched a video of a woman speaking about a tribe in Australia who use east, west, north and south instead of right and left. She said that they "stay oriented really well". How can I express this ...

How do you say in Esperanto continue doing? For example: He continued living there for the rest of his life.

My understanding is, Esperanto has no definitive word order regarding subject, object, and verb. And I also know one never uses -n for estas, example: Urso estas besto. A bear is an animal. ...

Kiam mi studadis la anglan, mi trovis regulojn por ordigi multajn adjektivojn rilate al unu substantivo. Tiam venis al mi la demando ĉu ekzistas iu ajn simila regulo por la Esperantaj adjektivoj. Jen ...

What is the Esperanto word for lololololol? In Esperanto, the word for lol is mdr (multe da ridoj). In many languages, there is also an extended form of internet slang for expressing laughter, with ...

Regarding the use of tio (and other t-words), these two following sources appear to be in contradiction. According to PMEG, p245: Simpla TI-vorto ĉiam montras ion ne tute proksiman al la parolanto....

Money back guarantee is a promise to refund if a customer is not satisfied with the product or service bought. The way I can think of this moment to express it in Esperanto is "garantio de mono ...

A fish farm is a farm that farms fish. A car factory is a factory that makes cars. A dog story is a story about dogs. Point it, it looks like you can just put noun next to noun in English, and voila! ...

Simple question: if a leg hurts me, do I still say "la kruro doloras min", although I have two of them? Why I'm wondering is because I feel a contradiction with the definite meaning of the article la ...