"Vi kisas la viron!"
Translation:You kiss the man!
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In english this sounds more like an imperative than anything else, but if I recally correctly (almost complete beginner here) Esperanto imperative verbs end in "u"? So an imperative form of this would be "Vi kisu la viron"?
Yes, because the fact that I am commanding the person that I am speaking to is implied.
I think it sounds more like the person who's talking is surprised that "you" are kissing the man.
you add the -n because it is accusative and viro is the object of the sentence. meake sure to check out the tips and notes for each section (i dont think it works on mobile though)
But even on a mobile, you can get to it from a browser: https://www.duolingo.com/skill/eo/Accusative
‘Vi kisas la viro.’ is not allowed. And ‘Vin kisas la viro.’ means that the man kisses you!
"Vin kisas la viro" is "the man kisses you". Your sentence has two objects and no subject.
"Vin kisas la viron" would that mean something along the lines of you and the man are being kissed?
Yeah, hopefully that was just a typo on my part, but after a year, who knows? (Better late than never, now it's fixed.)
No if you want to say "the man kisses you" is la viro kisas vin OR vin kisas la viro
Yeah, hopefully that was just a typo on my part, but after a year, who knows? (Better late than never, now it's fixed.)
this lesson is so unbearably dramatic (´༎ຶ ͜ʖ ༎ຶ `)♡ i came here to learn esperanto not feel worse about my nonexistent love life
So is an 'n' added to the end of a word the action is towards? Like a direct object or something? Not grasping this part.
It is mostly used to signify a direct object. Sentences like "He kicked the ball", "I see her", and even "I know the facts", but not "I know about the facts" since words do not take the accusative form prepositions unless you want to show movements. Accusative a are used on the direct object of a transitive noun.
First I get told: "you kiss her!". Then: "You kiss the man!" If only Duolingo had emoticons.
someone explain object noun like you would to a 3 year old because i still don't understand
and what does "the object of the sentence" mean
It's the part of the sentence that's getting the action done to it. In this case, the man is getting kissed, so he's the object of the sentence.
They say we got tangled in a love triangle, a fatal game of truth or dare....
I know, but it is a bit weird to say "You kiss the man!" in Present Tense, isn't it?
Ŝa-la-la-la-la-la Mia o Mia, ŝajnas la kanbo estas tro timida! Ne kisos la knabinon.
