"Bonan vesperon!"
Translation:Good evening!
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If you attend a church that has "vespers" you can remember "vesperon" with it. Vespers are church songs sung in the evening, vesperon = evening
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Which is funny, because Zamenhof was Jewish.
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it actually comes from latin, which was the main language of the church for a long time: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vesper#Latin
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Am I the only one, who immediately thought about Westeros? :D
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Let us take a moment to appreciate just how personable the robot voice sounds :)
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I will reveal a secret to you: all the audio tracks of this course are recordings made vy a real human, and I even talked to him in person during the 100th Universal Congress in Lille this year!
Because that would make the evening the subject of the sentence, rather than the direct object. The full (implied) sentence being translated here is:
[I wish you] a good evening.
I is the subject. You is the indirect object (the recipient of the direct object). Which leaves a good evening as the direct object.
Esperanto doesn't have an indefinite article, so the 'a' isn't translated. And since what's left is the direct object, it takes the accusative case, which means adding an '-n' to both the adjective and the noun. Hence, Bonan vesperon.
I hope this helps.
