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This is going to mess me up because pat- usually is the prefix for fatherly words. Paternal, Patriot (People who supported the founding fathers), etc.
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But then again - if anyone's been paying attention they would notice that -ino implies feminine.
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Yes, I've noticed now, I'm getting more used with that suffix. Thank you though!
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This is the logic and simplicity of Esperanto. Some would consider it a bit sexist, but it is efficient.
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If they consider this sexist, then they should tell the millions and millions of people who speak arabic and hebrew that their language is sexist.
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They came from sexist culture but developed naturally. You'd hope a planned language would be less sexist but it was developed during a pretty sexist time.
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I feel like there should be an '-en' suffix for male and an '-in' suffix for female, but that's just me.....
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I think some tried to integrate male gender, but it isn't practical, and loses a lot of the simplicity.
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It's a latin root "pater" (father). With the time and mixings other languages which adopted latin roots didn't always used them in the original sense.
Think on it like a "false friend", like in many other languages happens.
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Seems an odd thing to say... and something that would make your throat very sore.
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Why can't I write "Cxu vi estas patrino"? The word "Cxu" is correct -.-' buf!
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Yes! It worked on PC/laptop... But the x system doesn't work in the phone app I guess
I selected in "Are you a mother father" ... must have been thinking of something else
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I am not sure whether it happend due getting used to esperanto or it is actually my own mistake, but does the sentence "Are you a mother?" needs this "a" article?
It was marked as wrong translation.
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Without it you are asking "Are you mother?" which would be asking in English if she is your own mother. It would become the word you call your mother rather than a word for mother.
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No, the verb "to be" is a helping verb, (like may, might, must, be, being, been, am, is, are, was, were, do, does, did, should, could, would, have, has, had, will, can, and shall) and because "patrino" is a complement to the subject using the helping verb, it's actually a predicate nominative, which doesn't take a "n".
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I don't have the option on my keyboard for the correct accents on cu, gi, etc... I looked and there is no Esperanto language option, either. Any suggestions?
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What OS do you have?
EDIT: Wait never mind, here's a link that can help with all OS's: http://en.esperanto.org.nz/how-to-learn-esperanto/how-to-type-esperanto-characters
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Accented characters are written with an x if you can't type the character. For instance, ĉ -> cx, ĝ -> gx. I use these when I'm under Windows.
There is also software that will add 'Compose' key functionality if you type in Esperanto enough. That allows you to type something like Alt + Shift + 6 then g to get ĝx.
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It's not recognizing "Cxu" for some reason. Twice now. Marks it wrong.
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It's been that way for a while. I think it's because it's an uppercase Cx. Normally it accepts it as a typo if the rest of the sentence is OK.
