"Bonvolu ne rigardi min tiel."

Translation: Please don't look at me like that.

[flootzavut]

This lesson is very angsty!

[astropauws]

It needs a hug!

[HWF10]

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[Raztastic]

[Ethanxman]

Would "please don't look at me like this," be translated differently?

[acrim0nian]

That would be "Bonvolu ne rigardi min tiel cxi" I think

[ben.ohannesian]

That would be right. Adding "ĉi" makes those type of words into their close range variant.

Without "ĉi": That, those, there, et c..

With "ĉi": This, these, here, et c..

Also, "ĉi" can go before or after word apparently, so "ĉi tiel" and "tiel ĉi" would mean the same thing.

[Siavel]

Why is it not "Bonvolu ne rigardas min tiel."? The infinitive doesn't seem correct to me.

[LeChatParle]

Please is a verb in Esperanto: bonvoli. You're giving a command, so please is conjugated with a U ending, and thus subsequent verbs are in the infinitive form.

"BonvolU ne regardi min tiel"

[Siavel]

Thank you, this was really helpful. I haven't gotten to imperatives yet, so I didn't realize Bonvolu is a verb.

[Sensorfire]

It can also be: BonvolE ne regardU min tiel.

[xigoi]

Aŭ "ne rigardu min, mi petas"?

[clh335763]

multajn dankon!

[tdannenbaum]

...Anakin

[CRobot42]

I'm sorry m'lady.

[deactivated user]

The speaker's pronunciation of "rigardi" is poor.

[JackBond]

I thought of rigardi as "to notice" so I figured this sentence would be "PLEASE IGNORE ME!... like that."

[TheKinglyWe]

"would please do not look at me thus", work, just because i believe ive seen an interpretation of tiel meaning either 'thus' or 'therefore', to be honest, its not really clear to me what the distinction is..

[Tomicxo]

"Please do not look at me thus" should be fine. Thus, according to Wiktionary, means "in this way or manner", which fits the meaning of the sentence.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thus#English

[JackBond]

My gut feeling says the sentence would work if you used "thusly" instead.

[Ariaflame]

It's a bit archaic on the English front mostly used in things like mathematical proofs or similar or words connecting phrases. I was doing so and so and thus this happened. While it technically has a similar meaning to 'that way' it would rarely be used.

[CRobot42]

"Therefore" is "tial"

[ChYrantha]

So,

tiel = that way = like that = so

Am I correct?

[ThatOneDoge]

Always the most useful sentences in this course.

[Tyler261811]

Mi ne sxatas sablon...

[Canvasian]

"Please do not watch me that way" is rejected. I find for some reason that even though the dictionary tip includes "to watch" as a possibility for "rigardi", it's frequently wrong for some reason?

[Erinacino]

I think the issue is that one wouldn't normally say it that way in English. Although there are plenty of sentences in this course that one wouldn't say in English...

[Navnoor11]

Where is "at"

[flootzavut]

"min" is in the accusative case, which means the thing that the verb is acting on. In English we use a preposition to mark it with this verb (I think strictly speaking it's a phrasal verb in English, "to look at"),, in Esperanto, the accusative.

[ThaysVieitas]

Kial ne? Vi estas tre bela. Cof.

[5tephe]

She still loves you, Adamo! Just talk to each other!

[CRobot42]

Adamo estas frato de Sofia...

[Datan0de]

Even knowing what the answer is supposed to be, that's not what it sounds like he's saying.