"La kato kaptas la muson."

Translation: The cat catches the mouse.

[Pampelius]

Muso and Musxo... important distinction

[TygerStripe]

Mia kato kaptas musojn kaj musxojn.

[lottelientje]

On another sentence I saw the tip that musxo (I can't use the actual letter, which would be a better example) has a little fly over the S!

[David_Coron]

"Mushi" means "bug" in Japanese. There you all is a good'n mnemonic device

[Emmett705338]

also 'mouche' is fly in French :P

[grey236]

Tom and Jerry

[kolego]

[t0f0b0]

Tre bone!

[Atueerd2]

Haha, prenu mian Lingoton!

[MultiLinguAlex]

Pure gold =)

[Rippler]

I keep thinking muso means moose.

[alegzander_2]

Aaaah damn, me either

[EYF2003]

why is it muson not muso?

[lottelientje]

It's the object here. It's a grammar thing.

[e.freed.2432]

When a noun is the direct object of a sentence, you add an n after the o. This is called the accusative.
kato=subject
kaptas=verb
muson=direct object (receiving the action done by the subject directly)

[queenmeanie]

Oh ok thankies

[tu_madre_vic]

Nobody thought of Tom and Jerry? I certainly did.

[Babybear15]

La katido kaptas la musidon.

[hi_its_jo]

the entire plot of mio in the farway land

[queenmeanie]

Can someone tell me the diffrence between muso and muson?

[lottelientje]

Muso is nominative, or subject, and muson is accusative, or object.

[KaptianKaos8]

My English isn't that good. What does the nominative and the accusative mean?

[e.freed.2432]

The nominative is the subject of the sentence, or the thing that does the action. The accusative is the direct object of the sentence, or the thing that receives the action of the verb done by the subject.

[trezapoioi1]

How did you manage to get this far on the course?

[EntropicIrony]

Autocorrect hates me. "Cats his" used to be catches before I pressed enter...

[heitor.dan1]

Why isn't "La kato kaptas la musoj" correct? How do I distinguish "the cat catches the mouse" from "the cat catches the mice" from "the cats catch the mouse" and so on? I am a bit confused

[e.freed.2432]

The cat catches the mouse=la kato kaptas la muson.
The cat catches the mice=la kato kaptas la musojn.
The cats catch the mouse=la katoj kaptas la muson.
The cats catch the mice=la katoj kaptas la musojn.
If just a j is added to the end, it become a nominative plural. If just an n is added, it becomes an accusative singular. If an j and an n are added, it becomes an accusative plural.