"Mi-e dor de ei."
Translation:I miss them.
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i see that i have difficulty in knowing whether "EI" means " THEY" or "SHE" if there is no verb.
Except when ei is the dative 3rd person singular feminine. In which case, it means "to her".
No, dor is a noun, a bit like ”craving” or ”desire”, but it's untranslatable if the list of untranslatable words under one of the lessons is correct.
I was thinking of literal as in how the grammar works. Since "longing" is a gerund it functions as a noun, and the grammar in "I am longing for them" seems pretty close to "Mi-e dor de ei."
even closer would be:
To me, it is pain from them
dor is related to Latin dolus = trickery, but also to French deuil = grief, and thus also somehow to Latin dolor = pain and English indolent (= "not feeling the kick") https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dolus#Latin
