"La virino ne dormas, ŝi laboras!"

Translation: The woman does not sleep, she works!

[AidanJohns4]

I like how with Esperanto you can figure out what many words mean before Duolingo tells you. With "laboras" I instantly knew that it would mean work.

[WackyJack]

You can see the associations between language families as you do it. "Dormir" from Spanish and "labor" from English. It's pretty intuitive.

[greyproc]

Yeah; I actually got these as well, parsing "dormir" as "dormant". This one was nice in that I could type "The woman isn't sleeping", in lieu of 'doesn't sleep'

[WallieMcKi]

Cool to know, thanks!

[LeVieuxSieur]

Actually, both verbs come directly from Latin.

[CapdeBurro]

Actually what I see is that those verbs are almost entirely indentical to their old latin counterpart.

[TygerStripe]

Be careful with that though, there is a thing called "false friends" where two words seem similar in two languages but are completely different. Google Esperanto false friends if you want some examples.

[Clara_2134]

"the woman is not asleep, she is working!"
- should this be valid?
(currently it is not)

[WackyJack]

Wouldn't that be the present progressive, not the simple present?

[coinaday]

Noob question: so Esperanto makes that distinction, eh? I'd rather gotten to enjoy French shoving them into one form...

[ChuckWalter]

I'm not sure. I would report it just in case.

[easyevan]

"Asleep" is an adjective/adverb. The translation wants the verb, which in this case would be "sleeping."

[Marykitcat]

Independent

[TexMexChica]

What's the translation? The woman does not sleep, she works?

[AzDeEspadas]

Is it correct to say "La virino dormas ne. Si laboras!"?

[ppvnf]

La Virino does not mean A Girl? Duoling told me this means A Lady. Can someone explain me how to be polite in Esperanto. Thanks

[Bunkerfox]

I think La Virino means "The woman". Virino on its own means "A woman". If you did want to say "A girl it would be knabino.

[bezoblakov]

Блин, когда уже русско эсперанто будет. Приходится через 2 языковых барьера переступать)

[KonradKond8]

Lel

[WallieMcKi]

Why does it sound like he doesn't say the "L" in laboras? In this sentence? It sounds like "aboras" to me I had to go looking on line to see what that might mean since I didn't remember any "aboras". I finally decided it had to be laboras. I got it right. But didn't like the "L" sound missing. Is that how you're supposed to say it or is it just the way this guy says it?