"Bonan tagon, mi estas komencanto."
Translation:Good day, I am a beginner.
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Funny. Looks like words from different languages mixed together... French/latin, german, english, spanish/portuguese. Bonne/bonam Tag, me estoy/estou/estás comenzando/comencando...
Yes, that's exactly how Zamenhof created Esperanto. He took bits and pieces from different European languages. Not just the Romance and Germanic, but the Slavic as well.
In my mind, "bonan tagon" means the same than "bonan matenon", so, you can say "bonan tagon" in the morning when you want to greet somebody, or say "bonan matenon" as well
I believe you can also use the verb form of "komencant*" and say "Mi komencantas".
Zamenhof created indeed a system where the same root serves as basis for different word classes. However, the stem is komenc-, and "I begin" is "mi komencas". The ending -anto is added to the stem to make the word "komencanto", beginner.
Good day often is a way of saying goodbye in english. I'm assuming this is a greeting though.
Yes, some Romance languages literally say "good day" where we would say "hello". For example, in French they say "bonjour".
No, it's not. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like it should be, though.
Good day is different than good morning, at last in my native language, we mostly use it after around 9 a.m. and it's more formal than good morning. And it's definitely used like greeting in some slavic languages, German and French too.
It's late, I am feel sleepy and I typed "Bonan sagon, mi estats komencento". That's three mistake but the system still credited it good to me simply reporting I made typos... I feel the system should be harder and gave me a bad answer for that...
I can't fathom why "Hello, I'm a beginner" isn't accepted. Nobody says "Good day" as a greeting in English. Literal translations are always a bad thing to begin with, but here insisting on the literal and not accepting the actual way people say it is just plain ridiculous.
I'm pretty sure "bonan tagon" was translated "hello" elsewhere in this lesson. So I think "Hello, I am a beginner." should be accepted and reported it as such. I am not a native English speaker nor a trained linguist, but I feel "hello" would be a more natural translation of "bonan tagon" in most cases.
I see that as well as "Good day …", answers using "Good afternoon …" are also accepted. Is there a reason for afternoon being accepted, but not other named parts of the day?