"One says that French is beautiful."
Translation:Oni diras, ke la franca estas bela.
May 28, 2015
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It has something to do with ke, yes. For the purposes of determining case, everything after ke will act like a separate sentence, and will ignore everything before ke. If you are considering only "la franca estas bela", there is nothing there that causes anything to be accusative, so nothing in that phrase gets -n. It is true that "ke la franca estas bela" is a direct object for "diras", but it would be awkward to put -n on every word in that phrase, so we do not do that.
mico12345
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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.