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- "La knaboj bone skribas."
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I think "the good boys write" but is "the boys write well" and is because bone dont have a j in the end. ¿¿Yes or not?? :D thanks
bona is an adjective and bone is an adverb la knaboj bona skribas=the good boys write la knaboj bone skribas=the boys write well
Can't "the children write well" be accepted? I understand it's a part of the gender reform; I just think it should be an accepted alternative.
Esperanto is considered to be sexist by some people ignorant of the history of language, in how it formats gender. The "-in-" addition makes a neutral/masculine form into a feminine one, which sort of make sense as a lot like English, many of the terms are used in a gender neutral fashion by default, although English has has a legit reason for this.
"Good" is not a standard adverb (it's usually only heard in colloquial language, and in all cases "well" would be the proper, gramatically correct answer).
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Because the -e ending makes it an adverb (something that describes a verb or action) In this case, skribi, is the verb.
Shouldn't it be "La knaboj skribaj bone"? The verb in number accordance with the subject?
No. All the (simple) tenses in Esperanto use the same suffixes for all the numbers and persons. The suffix is -as for Present Tense, so it's Mi/ni/ti/vi/li/sxi/gxi/oni skribas.
I just gotta note that should have written "all the -simple- tenses". Complex tenses are, hm, slightly more complex, concretely their participles. :D
Ne, ĉar "boys" estas pluralo. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In English, one would either say "The boy (singular) writes well" or "The boys (plural) write well".
