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Difference in meaning when changing order of clauses in a sentence

I was asked to translate the English sentence He does not find the lamp in the box. into Esperanto. I wrote Li ne trovas la lampon en la kesto. as an answer and it was accepted but another ...
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Kien iras Sofia or Kien Sofia iras?

What is a better translation for the English sentence Where is Sofia going? Google Translate suggested Kien iras Sofia? and my Duolingo course gave me Kien Sofia iras as a correct sentence. If both ...
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Stranga ordo de "ago" + "priskribo"

Jen du frazoj sufiĉe ordinaraj. La tasko estas facile farebla. Estas facile fari la taskon. Tiuj du havas signifon efektive saman, kaj ili estas same oftaj (miasperte, laŭ miaj oreloj). Kiel strange ...
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Je kiu grado estas ĝuste reordigi "OSVV[V[....]]" al "OVSV[V[...]]"?

Kiam verbfrazo havas pli ol unu verbon, kiam (kaj kiom) estas ĝuste aŭ malĝuste meti la subjekton post la "kapverbon" kaj antaŭ la aliajn verbojn? Jen estas ekzemplo [eble iomete absurdeta]. ...
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Vortordo - kvantadverbo ne rekte apud «da»

Ĉiuj komprenus tiun frazon. Mi havas multe da X. Sed ĉu ankaŭ tiu havus sencon? Mi multe havas da X. Kaj ĉu ankaŭ ambaŭ el tiuj ĝustas? Ĉu da X? Mi havas multe. Ĉu da X? Mi multe havas. La ...
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Vortordo de adverboj - kiom, kiel, kaj kiam gravas?

Jen frazoj ŝajne simplaj. Estas bone legi libron. Simple pensu! La unua, laŭ kunteksto, evidente signifas ke legi libron estas afero bona. Sed, ĉu ia ajn nuanco aŭ signifo malsimila estus, se la &...
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Double verb use

I have searched StackExchange and not found a satisfactory answer. I am confused by word order of two verbs in one sentence. I know little about clause, noun-phrases and other grammar. So I am using ...
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"mi kaj X" aŭ "X kaj mi"?

When listing people and one of them is oneself (i.e. the first person singular pronoun), it's common in some languages and cultures (among them English and German) to list oneself last, or at least ...
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Representing the present perfect continuous

Given that the simple present tense in Esperanto can represent the present perfect progressive, given context (e.g. a simple "faras" in "mi ĝin faras ekde iam antaŭe" can mean "I have been doing it ...
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Negating "jam" (i.e. to not already have done something)

"jam ne" means "no longer" (like "ne ... plu") instead of "already not". But then how would one express the negation of just "jam"? That is to say, how to say that one has not already done something. ...
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Adjective order - convention as opposed to rule

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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How does positional emphasis work in Esperanto?

The word order in Esperanto sentences is very free. Many learning materials point out that deviating from the "standard" subject-verb-object (SVO) order can be used in Esperanto to put ...
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Vortordo kun subfrazo kun «ke»

Ĉu oni povas ŝanĝi la vortordon por ke parto de subfrazo estu malantaŭ rilata «ke»? Ekzemple, ĉu estus kompreneble diri frazon kiel: Ĉi tiun libron mi pensas ke vi ŝatus. Do, en tiu okazo la «ĉi ...
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Is the Esperanto infinitive ambiguous?

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 "...
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How free is word order in a sentence with infinitives

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 ...
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Position of unemphatic pronouns

In the book A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman, in Lesson 59, it is said that an unemphatic pronoun very frequently precedes the verb of which it is the object. Some given examples are: ...
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Uses of Word Order in Esperanto

In Esperanto word order doesn't affect the meaning of the sentence. For example, the following 6 sentences mean the same thing (I like you): Mi ŝatas vin Mi vin ŝatas Vin ŝatas mi Vin mi ŝatas Ŝatas ...
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Word order & equivalent sentences

I'm learning Esperanto using Duolingo and am a total beginner, so sorry if the questions sound silly. (Mi estas komencanto!) I have a bit of a doubt in the following two points: Are Kiel vi fartas? ...
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Is it incorrect to end a sentence with the word "pri"?

For example: Mi ne povas decidi kio(n) paroli pri. (not sure about the accusative) Mi ne povas decidi kion priparoli. I've said something similar to #1 before not knowing whether it was ...
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"Adjective + noun" or "noun + adjective"?

What is the most common word order when it comes to an adjective describing a noun? For example, Duolingo considers the following correct sentences. Li volas postenon gravan. vs. Li volas ...
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Is there any rule about the adjectives order?

In English, adjectives are normally written in a specific order, for example colour, origin, material, purpose, noun. She liked to wear her red Spanish leather riding boots. Is there a similar ...
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