"Mi fartas bone, ĉar mi havas anason."

Translation: I am doing well, because I have a duck.

[LauriceP]

I always check the comments section when I come across weird sentences like this. Haha.

Kiel oni diras "weird" en Esperanto?

[TrevorForeplay]

"Weird" en Esperanto estas "bizara".

[kmaheynoway]

I use a made up word "malnormala" which literally translates "unnormal". I just attached the prefix "mal" (which reverses a word's meaning) to the Esperanto word for normal, "normala."

[akq.galloway]

They're all made-up words :P

[jpentland]

sounds more like "abnormal"

[bonoodle]

stranga

[Benja_Zouras]

https://www.zazzle.com/z/ohhcu?rf=238631593412239514

[1997zqy]

Where can I buy a T-shirt like this? lol

[Benja_Zouras]

Here!
https://www.zazzle.com/z/ohhcu?rf=238631593412239514

https://www.zazzle.com/collections/esperanto_gifts-119420085250360546?rf=238631593412239514=share_nclif=en=true

[Bricxjo]

I want one!

[DanielleKr560190]

ME WANTS

[dusics95]

This sentence makes me happy ! ^^

[Demauscian]

Now i want a duck.

[EntropicIrony]

So do I...

[Aderight27]

I am feeling well because I have a duck and I am doing well because I have a duck mean the same ducking thing!!

[Hayden_Watson]

You need a duck, then you will do better :P

[hugofski]

Mi ne donas anaso ke flugas

[solumaenus]

ba dum tissssss

[Kliphph]

At first I thought this was "I fart well because I have an anus".

[AnnikaQED]

um....that's the "joke" and why it's so popular with some esperantists

[FaizalZahid]

Is this what Jimmy Neutron's father would say in Esperanto? O_O

[Varad211396]

Ahh yes, knabo genius Jimmy Neutron goes bilingual

[sspadaro81]

Mi ne fartas bone, ĉar anaso rigardas min!

[sbmassey]

Alan Moore would agree if his 'March of the Sinister Ducks' song is anything to go by

https://youtu.be/QGL8Fx6SOjg

[Q-Allat]

Everybody should have a duck!

[Rafel91812]

Ducks are always popping everywhere. He he

[Zerr_]

I...I think I need a duck now.

[deactivated user]

Therefore ducks bring good luck.

[BelleHunter]

Ah, ducks do indeed provide the best succour.

[SaraMirinda]

Where does the word "anason" come from?

[mizinamo]

Probably Latin anas "duck".

[annadeyoung]

remember children, ducks are the key to a person's happiness

[Geocub]

This answers that question in the Dutch Duolingo course... "Why do you have a duck?"
"I am doing well because I have a duck"
Oh, okay.

[heronyx]

This sentence is quite dodgy in a very English manner.

[KubeJay]

I keep reading ananason and writing pineapple. xD

[Siavel]

Kion diras ananaso?

[drofdarbegg]

The word "ĉar" comes from the French "car" meaning "because".

[Jeendegraa]

why can't 'bone' be translated to 'good'? as in "i am doing good"

[AtalinaDove]

"I'm doing good" technically means "I'm doing an act of good" in English, not "I am doing well", which is grammatically the correct sentence.

[gantsdacier]

It's entirely possible to say "I'm good, thanks" or "I'm doing good, thanks". I tend to hear it more in American or Canadian settings but I hear it in the UK as well :)

[sdtrask1]

It is certainly possible and even common to say, "I'm good", but it is actually grammatically incorrect. I am in agreement with Atalina; good is an adjective. So, if I say, "I'm good", what I am saying is that I am morally upright and beneficent. Well is an adverb and describes HOW I am doing. Farti can be (more accurately) translated "to fare". So, mi fartas bone can be most succinctly translated as "I fare well". "Good" would not work there. (I realize no one would actually use the verb "fare", but this helps me.)

[liskarh]

Thank you. You made the obsessive compulsive editor inside me happy. :) And I also use the word "fare" to remember, and I think the first time I saw "fartas" I translated with the word "fare" and got it wrong. Way too out of date a word, I guess! x}

[Oceanotti]

[TrevorForeplay]

Duck tales, woooooo

[A_Konrad]

Anasaj rakontoj, wooo

[theFIZZYnator]

Shouldn't it be Anasaj Rakontoj?

[A_Konrad]

Jes, dankon amiko!

[deactivated user]

anaso* :/

[Oceanotti]

You are so right! My bad!

[DanielMMal]

"Howard estas anaso."

[HowardJohn3]

Howard la anaso :)

[fearedbliss]

Kio estas tio?!

[ZoeWa1ker]

impact font is NOT acceptable i guess the joke was worth it and this was 2 years ago so im letting you off the hook

[Marmalade312]

Little known fact: Carrying a live duck is a mood booster, as this sentence so sagely points out. ;)

[EVTurbo1]

Why a duck?

[jestillore]

Because a duck makes oneself happy. :D

[calebeby]

Read floors by patrick carman

[xMatisse95]

The question is why not?

[AnnikaQED]

It's a pun: "mI FARTas cxar mI HAVas AN AS on."

[fizzy224385]

ok well that's cool and but i don't give a duck

.....shet

[HJuliaH]

Is it possible to say "I am doing great" in English?

[AnnikaQED]

"Mi fartas bonege."

[liskarh]

Lots of people say it, but as with the word "good," it's not grammatically correct.

[zagadka314]

[Ricxjo_]

https://imgflip.com/i/1n5rsh

[Kubissx]

Mi ne pensis ke mi vidu ĉi tiun frazon denove, tiel malfrue en la kurso. Mi feliĉas pri tio!

[hetik]

If you don't like this sentence, go anason yourself!

[gantsdacier]

And ducks fly together!

[tamasmama]

But what if I am doing well because I have duck? As in, I am eating a delicious plate of duck?

[verballyinsane]

That would be anasaĵo ;p
(Dankon, mizinamo.)

[mizinamo]

anasaĵo (you dropped a letter)

[EvoheMaesa]

Instead of submitting 'I am doing well, because I have a duck' , I accidentally submitted 'I am going well, because I have a f*ck'..

[MosesPeris]

Mi anasojn demetas grandan ovojn.

[EsperantoLearns]

I AM DOING SO WELL JUST CAUSE I GOT GEEEEEEEEEEEESE

[PVMTrang]

I can't help thinking that Fartas means Fart.

[Varad211396]

The joke is that mi FARTas bone cxar mi havas ANA(replace the A with a U)Son
As in: i fart well because i have an anus

[GauravAgra16]

Duo estas ne vegetarano

[mizinamo]

havas anason means that he "has a duck" (owns, possesses) -- not that he "is having duck" (eats).

[John_on_Du]

ducktales, woohoo