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I'm curious about your choice of examples and learning materials. Google Translate is not a good source to learn from and two of the three examples you have about cats and houses are grammatically wro …

I see this question a lot in Duolingo. My advice there, since the responses are checked by computer, is to always use "this" when you see ĉi tiu and "that" when it's just tiu. In practice, though, the …

Jes, la ekzemploj el Tekstaro estas gramatike malĝustaj. Ja ekzistas gramitikaj eraroj en la Tekstaro. La ĉefa afero estas kontroli kaj kompari la uzon en la tekstaro por eltrovi ĝeneralajn regulojn d …

La artikolo en PIV pri "ĉar" indikas ke "ĉar" povas esti uzata elipse, kaj donas la jenan ekzemplon: junul’ freneza, ĉar ambrula Krome mi trovis kelkajn aliajn ekzemplojn en Monato. sed tiu ne e …

My impression is that it's not used very much as a noun (esper-ant-o) - and a search in the Tekstaro shows that most of the usages of esperanto in lower case are actually references to Esperanto, not …

I look at it this way. "Si" and "li" are different pronouns. Using the wrong pronoun in Esperanto is just as wrong as using the wrong pronoun in another language. In English you have to use "her" if …

I've come upon a number of hard and fast answers to questions like this over the years and I think most of them are wrong. The sentences you give are essentially the same in meaning. If you think it's …

While you will frequently hear the double accusative in spontaneous speech, it is not good Esperanto and should be avoided, especially in writing if you have even a half second to think about what you …

When adjectives and nouns agree (i.e. when they have the same -j and -n endings) they usually go together. Consider the following examples. Ĉu vi konsideras vin feliĉa - Do you consider yourself hap …

I'm curious how you learned Esperanto? In my experience, the Duolingo course puts too strong an emphasis on suffixes (including iĝi) as free-standing words -- although both iĝi and fariĝi are used in …

Laŭ mi, absolute jes! Estas malĝuste diri ke necesejo estas banĉambro. Se iu diras "banĉambro" por "necesejo", temas pri eraro kaŭze de nacilingva influo.

Ambaŭ manieroj eblas, sed mi rekomendas la uzon de "la" en tiuj okazoj. Paranteze, ankaŭ la angla foje uzas la artikolon. He punched me in the gut. // Li pugnobatis min en la ventro. Se ni dirus …

Posting this answer here at the request of the asker: Simply put, the answer depends on the expectations of the person you're talking to, so always strive to be clear and flexible. A: Ĉu vi faris ne …

Kvankam is used to append information showing a cause or motive which doesn't have the usual result. mi vidas nenion, kvankam ĉio estas lumaZ; Tamen means simply "in spite of that". la knabo est …

This is how I look at it. ke joins two grammatically complete expressions, usually complete sentences, but it can include prepositional phrases, as in the first example. Por konvinki tiun sinjoron, …