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I cannot read the text when I follow the link; is it Job 9:32? Ĉar Li ne estas homo simile al mi, Ke mi povu respondi al Li, Ke ni povu ambaŭ iri al juĝo. For he is not a man, as I am,tha …

Next and future: e.g. estonta, sekvonta and venonta These words are used to refer to future events and phenomena which can confidently be expected to happen at a certain date or time. Dum la venonta …

The short forms are correct, and I would not blink if someone used kurantis ("was running") or irontis ("was about to go"). However, ordinary Esperanto style tends to avoid compound tenses, and I thin …

You don't even need a word there. Mi havas multajn hobiojn: naĝi [or naĝadon], promeni, kudri, kaj tiel plu. It is possible to use kiel, but it feels a little incomplete without ekzemple. Alterna …

Kuri can be used for most forms of rapid movement which resemble running. For the concept of race, PIV gives vetkuro, but the choice is somewhat problematic. Vetkuro originally referred to horse-raci …

That sort of incorrect usage of the suffix [in which tre and granda are systematically neglected] cannot be approved of, and one should avoid it as much as possible. …

Ĝeni means to hinder and Zamenhof used Ne ĝenu vin... to mean "Don't hesitate to..." (literally, "Don't hinder yourself" = "Don't refrain from...") So ĝeni is not an exact synonym of bother, disturb, …

In compound words, you only use the accusative form for si. (This is discussed in PAG §310.) So the word you want is ĉiomanĝ(ant)a. Be aware that ĉiovora means omnivorous. In PIV, under ĉio, these exa …

You should use ci about as often as you would use thou in English. Or less. The purpose of ci was to provide an alternative, singular form of vi for use in translations (or pseudo-translations), when …

The answer to "Why?" is that Esperanto is in some respects a pseudo-Romance language, and this is more or less how the others do it. Speakers of those languages find it entirely natural to use the con …

This is discussed in PMEG in section 22.4, under Jes kaj ne ĉe neaj demandoj. There are two methods, the Western and Eastern. The Western system is the one you are used to; the Eastern system is the …

La vorto nura esprimas nesufiĉecon; la vorto sola esprimas foreston de kunuloj. Li ne estas viro. Eĉ kun nia helpo, la tasko estos malfacila por nura knabo. Li staras ekster la lernejo sen aliaj infa …

Modern dictionaries assert that the kruro is the shank (knee to ankle), at least in medical contexts, while the gambo is the whole leg including the foot. However, this is a modern distinction and ol …

Mi ne vidas ion ajn kritikindan ĉi tie. Unu tago estas dudek kvar horoj. Unu kilometro estas mil metroj.

It is only possible in sentences like Mi kutime vizitas ĵus antaŭ Kristnasko. The ĵus is attached to Kristnasko rather than the verb. Sometimes people use ĵus to refer to location, e.g. Ĝi situas ĵus …