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Sure, it's difficult to build sentences with very limited vocabulary, but team Esperanto did a great job so far =)
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Is it the Esperanto language that lacks vocabulary?
Or is it just the Esperanto course that lacks vocabulary?
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Neither. If you introduce only the words "girl", "boy", "man", "woman", "I", "am" and "a" in the first lesson of the first skill, then you can only create sentences with this vocabulary. This is how every course works and this is why we have a lot of sentences with this vocabulary. The sentences become more complex as the course proceeds.
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They like to pretend half the sentences aren't about kissing and cafes... It's just the Esperanto course
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It is US that lack vocabulary, as we've just started learning it
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Can you translate this as "Beautiful girls sing at cafes" too?
I'm thinking of French, where "en" means "at."
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Because it's part of the phrase "en kafejoj". The -n only occurs on the object of the sentence: the thing that the verb is acting upon. For example, "Belaj knabinoj kantas kantojn."-- "Beautiful girls sing songs." The songs are being sung, thus get the -n.
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In German we use the dative case after most prepositions, and for some reason my brain doesn't wanna understand that Esperanto only has an accusative. So I often make this mistake and use '-n' after 'en'.
