"One says that French is beautiful."
Translation:Oni diras, ke la franca estas bela.
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"Oni" messes with my Russian... "Vi" and "Ni" mess with my Swedish... gah!
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I feel your pain and share a lingot with you because we suffer together.
This was definitely hard for me to get used to when I was learning Swedish!
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Is the comma a subordinate clause marker (just like in German)? Should you use it every single time or is it expendable?
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Yes, I believe so, and to your second question, it is preferable so as to put more emphasis on the fact that the two parts are a little bit separated.
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Thanks - I'll use my Dutch and German knowledge and forget my native Portuguese for this, then :)
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FYI: In Dutch you wouldn't have a comma like in the given sentence here.
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so the subordinate here is "french is beautiful"? isn't subordinate the dependent clause? and dependents cannot stand alone? i think "french is beautiful" can stand on its own? or am i missing something..
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Subordinate clauses and dependent clauses are different things
If DC, then it is a SC, but the reverse isn't necessarily true.
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A subordinate clause is a dependent clause. Here you include the word "that". "that French is beautiful" is a subordinate clause.
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Could this mean: They say that French is beautiful? or is it strictly: one says?
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It could be interpreted as only an adjective without the omitted "lingvo" if your remove "la". Since we can all agree that "heroic" is an adjective, consider the difference "the" makes between "Heroic saved the nation" and "The heroic saved the nation"
I struggle with putting 'la' before the name of the language. ❤❤❤❤❤❤, stupid English.
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cxu ne ? Mi estas franca kaj mi interesiĝas pri kiel vi aŭdas ĉi tiun lingvon...
