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I have a text to correct seems to be often translated into Mi havas tekston por korekti by English Esperanto speakers. I find the translation weird and confusing since a correction is not a goal of th …

Should prepositions such as en and per be prefered? …

It seems that I slept during the holiday can be translated into two ways: Mi dormis en la festotago. Mi dormis dum la festotago. Do they both mean the same?

To introduce a causal secondary sentence, I often saw pro tio, ke and ĉar. Recently, I saw pro ke, without any tio to which I think ke is supposed to refer to. Mi ne povas dormi pro ke tro malvar …

One can say "Mi atendis horon", where horo has the accusative mark as an indication of a time-length. However, we usually don't use the accusative after ol. Can we directly transform the sentence into …

Both express an idea of movement (the first one with the preposition al, and the second with the -n for direction.) Do they mean the same thing, and is it always the case?

The prepositions kun and per can both be translated in English with with. In this case, which one should I use? …

For saying that something is on a website, I have seen at least four different prepositions: La demando estas je Stack Exchange La afiŝo estas en Reddit La pepaĵo estas ĉe Twitter Ĝi estas …

Both can be translated to "Thanks for your answer". Which one is correct, and if both are, when?

The standard way to say "to vote for someone" is "voĉdoni por iu / voĉdoni iun". But if the vote is against that person, for exemple for banning this person from a community, the use of "por" can lead …

Sometimes, it is not easy to identify the correct meaning of krom: Krom Petro, la tuta familio vojaĝis. Ĉu Petro vojaĝis? Did Petro travel? So it is better to know some alternatives to krom, one for …