"On Thursday I always eat in the same restaurant."
Translation:Ĵaŭde mi ĉiam manĝas en la sama restoracio.
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Did anyone else write "ĵaŭdon" because the exercise didn't say "On Thursdays"?
Yes. In English we would add the 's' to indicate that the action happens repeatedly. I got it wrong as well.
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Ĵaŭde is the form of Ĵaŭdo that signifies something done repeatedly, every week on that day. I drink beer every Thursday - Ĵaŭde mi trinkas bieron.
I believe this is because after prepositions, such as "en", the accusative case (the -n) is not used. See the Notes at the start of the lesson on the accusative: "The noun following a preposition normally takes a simple -o ending (-oj in the plural). Other endings will be explained later. For example: La virino estas en la kafejo. The woman is in the café."
"Ĵaŭde mi ĉiam manĝas en la restoracio sama" is not accepted. Surely it doesn't matter that I put the "sama" after the noun?
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That has happened to me before. I find it odd too, especially for a language that doesn't have a rigid word order. I reported it.
But.... the Tips and Notes do address this. Usually the adjective comes before the noun - unless there's "special emphasis". There's no special emphasis here.
Well, even though I consider Tuesday the third day of the week, if you do count Monday first you can associate Tuesday with "two"-sday, which would be especially effective using Salivanto's finger counting method.
Thinking of it, i think i saw such a trick in a post on 9GAG or something, time ago. It might even work, but i forgot it
I mix up mardo and merkredo ... and dimanĉo and Dienstag (German)
I sometimes will recite the days while I count on my fingers.
To me the problem would still there: even by starting from monday, i keep confusing the two because tuesday sounds more like the 4th day to me. If the course was not in english i would always get the esperanto days right
When I look at my hand, I see a calendar. Sunday and Saturday are hovering in the air next to my hand. So I say "lundo mardo merkredo" and end upon my middle finger -- which is the middle day. Do you have trouble saying the days in order? If not, then my method might help. If so, then maybe you need to drill a bit till you can.
Either way, sorry for your frustration - and good luck.
Anyway, why are all the days of the week in esperanto from french except for sabato that is from italian?