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Mi jam vidis iujn aserti ke la literkombino DZ estas fonemo, sed aliaj diras, ke ne. La argumento por estas ke ĝi ofte prononciĝas kiel afrikato, kiel en "edzo", kiu plej ofte prononĉigas e-dzo ...

Estas skribita tio en PAG: Tio troviĝas precipe ĉe la largsignifaj sufiksoidoj AĴ, IL kaj UM: porkaĵo povas esti viando aŭ maldecaĵo, kovrilo povas rilati indiferente al tiel diversaj aferoj, kiel ...

Nu, -i- ja estas produkta sufikso en nia lingvo, almenaŭ "eks-sufikso", ekz. oni formas landnomojn, kiel Francio, Germanio, ktp. Sed la sufikso ne estas disigebla: "io" ne signifas lando kaj "ia" ne ...

If one is gracious by showing social grace, they're gracia. But if one dispenses or exhibits grace, compassion and forgiveness regardless of the recipient's merit, would they be graca, gracema, ...

or equivalently 'shift the responsibility'. Thank you!

The original sentence Babies are easily frightened by thunders. And how does timas and timigas change the meaning of the sentence? Many thanks!

ENGLISH I am looking for a good, brief translation for a seed in a random number generator. This seed is the input given to such a generator that then determines its output, usually in an ...

I'm unable to find a name in Esperanto for this game, despite being a very common game in other languages. The phrase I'm translating uses "Stille Post" in German and "téléphone" in French, if that ...

How to translate "infusion", i.e. a medical treatment in which liquid substances are delivered through a hollow needle directly into the body. (E.g. interstitial / subcutaneous infusion a.k.a. ...

The title says it all: How do you say 'fey' in Esperanto? This is a common English word: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fey but is not in Benson, Wells, Revo, Vikivortaro. I would like ...

So there are two words that PIV claims they were used by Zamenhof: nett/ (for net in "net weight") and the absolutely unpronounceable ghett/ (ghetto). Searching those two in Tekstaro gives only false ...

In a conversation, one might want to stress that what one is going to say is related to what has been said (right) before. In English, this can be achieved by starting a sentence with By the way, ....

...nek ĝibulo, nek ftizulo, nek makulokululo, nek aknulo, nek favulo, nek herniulo... (Levidoj 21:20) Kion signifas "herniulo"?

I found a wiki article stating that Esperanto has an essive case, but not much of an explanation. Is the essive case in Esperanto basically an -e ending at the end of a word denoting a vague statement ...

Mi trovis ligilon al ĉi tiu filmeto en Mastodon. Mi multe scivolas pri la grupo. De kiu jaro ĝi estas? Ĉu ili havas aliajn kantojn? Ĉu iu scias ion pri ili? La priskribo de la filmeto diras nur ke ri ...

Mi serĉis en reta vortaro, sed nenion trovis. Mi pensis pri kaj versioj de "alproksimiĝaĵo" kaj "pligrandiĝo", "detalaĵo"?

I have found many fully translated pieces of Esperanto literature, but I am still a beginner, so these are difficult for me to understand. Therefore I am now looking for texts comprised of both ...

Laŭ ĉi tiu kritiko de Esperanto, ekzistas la vorto motorfiakro kiu havas la saman signifon kiel taksio kaj tio kaŭzas multe da konfuzo ĉar homoj lernas aŭ unu vorton aŭ la alian kaj tio kreas ...

I've stumbled upon a phrase which I cannot translate using dictionary itself. I would like to say something like "made by excessive use of technical terms" , so far I've been able to come up with ...

En Asteriks kaj Kleopatra (volumo VII) mi trovis sur paĝo 3 la jenan alineon: Ni estas en la jaro 50 a.K. La tuta Gaŭlujo estas okupita de la Romianoj. Ĉu la tuta Gaŭlujo? – Absolute ne! Unu vilaĝo ...

Can proper nouns have plural forms? For exemple, can I say Parizoj or Francioj? The sentence I want to create is like: La Parizoj el 1900 kaj 2000 estas tre malsamaj. So, should I add a 'j' to ...

Some of the things that I really like about Esperanto are the clear rules without exceptions. But there is something that is not really clear and I think, Zamenhof didn't notice. Zamenhof states in ...

I have a question concerning speaking practice, specifically, if there's any widely known discord server for Esperantists to discuss various topics and for beginners to practise speaking.

I've noticed that on Wiktionary for Esperanto words that include hyphenation, polymorphemic words (usually ones with derivational suffixes) are not hyphenated as I would expect. For example, the word ...

What would be the difference between ending adjectives with -o and with -eco? For example, between saying kolero and kolereco or feliĉo and feliĉeco.

Using vortaro.net, I found this definition for "prepucio" : "Haŭta refaldo, mufe ĉirkaŭanta la penisan glanon". I understood the meaning, but I don't know what "mufe" is. Vortaro.net doesn't have it, ...

Is there a good word for the lines of a play? Like “I have to learn my lines for the play tomorrow”. I can’t find it in the dictionary.

According to the Wiktionary, kato originates from French, Italian, Latin, etc... and kata comes from kato + a. But how can we say that it is not the opposite? Can we say that the root kat- comes from ...

I just discovered the two conditional suffixes on vortaro.net: -ut- : la ofendutoj pardonu! -unt- : eĉ perfiduntan mi ŝin volas mia! But I don't understand the given exemples. Can someone help me ...

At scienca-revuo.info I just read "Vilhelmo la Konkerinto". Should not he be called "Vilhelmo la Konkeranto"?

Ĉu ekzistas minimumaj paroj en Esperanto, kiuj distingigas la sonajn parojn c/ts, ĉ/tŝ, kaj ĝ/dĵ? Minimuma paro por du sonoj estas paro da vortoj, kies sola diferenco inter si estas tiuj du sonoj. ...

Is the letter r in Esperanto pronounced like غ in Arabic? Or like r in French?

They both can mean "to happen" I'm not sure what the difference is. Please provide a sentence example. Thanks.

Is a word like "enpaĝiginda" correct? If not, what words could I use to express this?

I have tried google translate, but i will be greatful if someone can help improve the translation. Thank you :) Oni Rorespondas en Esperanto Kairo, 16 Marto 1939. Sinjoro Sajed Ali Multanano, ...

A formal way to wish someone well in English is to say "may [good things happen to you]", filling in whatever specific blessing you intend to give. For instance, "May you always be happy." I know ...

I'm posting a lot of translation questions these days because I'm translating subtitles for a video. Some interjections have their specific Esperanto versions, like "ho" for "oh" (Swedish åh). Do we ...

I checked Reta Vortaro and got no hits, Google translate proposed "preterpasi". I'm looking for meaning 1.b. "to catch up with and pass by" according to Merriam-Webster, so preterpasi is probably ...

I read through this question and this and I'm still kind of wondering when I should use ĝi. Some people would prefer not to have it used about them, but I felt, when talking about my unborn baby, that ...

I really like having a gender-neutral pronoun, but I know that not everyone agrees on the usage. Now I use it for people that have explicitly asked to have "ri" used for them. I also use it when I don'...

I'm using Amara to translate video subtitles into Esperanto, and I was wondering if there is some way to find out when a new subtitle in Esperanto is available for a video. I guess I can do a search ...

Because of recent British politics, everybody is talking about the “backstop”. Is there a nice word to translate this into Esperanto? I think another way to say it could be a “safety net”. This seems ...

I started learning Esperanto because it sounded so international, with words from many different languages. It was mostly first just out of a linguistic interest, but then I got to know so many ...

2 Diru al la Izraelidoj jene:Se iu pekos per eraro kontraŭ la ordonoj de la Eternulo, malpermesantaj fari diversajn aferojn, kaj li faros iun el ili; 3 se pastro sanktoleita pekos, ĵetante kulpon ...

Mi rimarkis ke mi tute ne scias kiel diri @ en Esperanto kaj mi guglis, sed nenion trovis pri tio. I noticed that I don't know how to say @ in Esperanto. I searched the internet, but I can't find an ...

There are various online dictionaries, and sometimes a word one is looking for can only be found in some or even only one of them. Visiting all of those dictionaries to search through them for a ...

How to translate "plain text" in an IT/CS context, not referring to the cryptographic meaning (non-cyfer text) but just as opposed to "rich text" (such as RTF, MS Word or LibreOffice Writer) and as ...

Lernante Esperanto, mi ofte povas memori Esperantajn vortojn, afiksojn kaj radikojn pli bone, se mi scias ilia(j)n origino(j)n. Ĉu ekzistas etimologia vortaro de Esperanto? Se jes, ĉu ekzistas reta ...

I'd like to know what my level of Esperanto currently is, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL; esperante Komuna Eŭropa Referenckadro por lingvoj (KER)). I ...

En la angla oni povas diri «got him killed» por paroli pri io kio kaŭzis ke io mortigis lin. Ekzemple: All that gambling got him killed in the end. Do, tio estas ke la vetludado ne rekte mortigis ...