"The boy is eating an apple."
Translation:La knabo manĝas pomon.
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Why does "estas" change the verb? What's the difference between manĝas & mangunta?
-a is adjective form
-as is present tense verb form
estas + word ending in -a = verb ending in -as
(can be done with most words)
I just did a quick look through wiktionary and a few other resources, and manĝanta seems to be the active participle in the current tense for a single person. So, from what I've gathered from that and from https://en.glosbe.com/eo/en/man%C4%9Das, it seems like manĝas is more for the word eat as a whole, whereas manĝanta is for the action of eating, so an example would be "mi manĝas" means I eat, whereas it seems like the more correct way of saying "I am eating" would be "mi estas manĝanta."
Both "mi manĝas" and "mi estas manĝanta" would be correct here; the participle form isn't as common as it is in English.
What is mangunta? Where did you get this from? I don't think it's an Esperanto word...
If you get it wrong then it says that one correct solution is "La knabo estas manĝanta pomon."
Ah so LibraMonkey had 2 spelling mistakes for "manĝanta"
"manĝanta" = eating, because "-ant-" = "-ing".
The difference between manĝas & manĝanta is:
The difference between I eat and I am eating, I think?
If I am correctly understanding it:
"La knabo manĝas pomon." = The boy eats an apple
"La knabo estas manĝanta pomon." = The boy is eating an apple
manĝata would actually be "being eaten" - but that's a different lesson (I presume you typod manĝanta)
Remember, -a is an adjective; -anta is the active present participle (The -ing form, as an adjective), so the second sentence should be "estas manĝanta".
In Esperanto, unlike English, the simple form is more common.
ah yes i did typo it the 3rd time, oops ^_^ - fixed, for anyone reading in future.
Of course - without -as/-is/-os, you need the estas for the verb form. Oops. I've fixed this too, to better inform / less confuse, any future readers.
Thanks!
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"Pomon la knabo manĝas."
"La knabo pomon manĝas."
"La knabo manĝas pomon." ...
I love Esperanto! :D Awesome simple language and you can even play with it as you want. :)
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Me too, Esperanto is so awesome :D
I put my words in crazy order just because I can haha
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Oh, i can't understand one thing... Are there the progressive tenses in Esperanto? Or there aren't such tenses like in French, German, Russian etc?
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Mi mangxas = I eat and I am eating. (Don't try to make a tense in Esperanto like English one. There is no such a tense (Continuous) in Esperanto like in other European languages.
Mi ne sxatas mangxantan urson. (I don't like a bear, who eat (eating bear))
I cannot add the accents to the words easily in my phone, the app should account for that.
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This one did bother me at first, Especially since it say's "manghas" in the translation. But, I understand it now. It's pretty easy once you start paying attention to the patterns en la lingvo.
