Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM to The Internet in Ancient Times@lemmy.world · 6 days agoPreferred languagelemmy.worldimagemessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1273file-text
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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-26 days agoJes. Mi parolas iomete. spoiler That is almost the entirety of my knowledge of Esperanto. Edit: Altough I thought it was “Esperante?”
minus-squarelili_thanalinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 days agoEsperanton is the accusative form of Esperanto. So literally “Do you speak Esperanto?” Esperante is an adverbized form of Esperanto. So “Ĉu vi parolas esperante?” Is like “Do you speak esperanto-ly?” Hard to translate literally.
Ĉu vi parolas Esperanton?
Memkompreneble!
Jes. Mi parolas iomete.
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That is almost the entirety of my knowledge of Esperanto.
Edit: Altough I thought it was “Esperante?”
Esperanton is the accusative form of Esperanto. So literally “Do you speak Esperanto?” Esperante is an adverbized form of Esperanto. So “Ĉu vi parolas esperante?” Is like “Do you speak esperanto-ly?” Hard to translate literally.
Thanks for the explanation.
Nedankinde!