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"How does one say "Hello" in French?"
Translation:Kiel oni diras "Saluton" en la franca?
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Woah woah woah, I didn't know how to say half of the words in this question before it came up! Usually it's introduced in a form of Esperanto>English first, no?Kiel, oni, and franca are all new...
Words are introduced at random, sometimes using the target language first - that's what the hints are for.
The hints give me the full sentence, including "How does one say" as a translation of "Kiel oni viras".
This is probably the most important phrase I've learned. Now I can redirect the conversation back into Esperanto when I need to revert to English.
It will almost always do that - not just the nouns, but adjectives as well (any part of speech that would be inflected remains in the nominative after a preposition).
The only cases where the accusative marker is retained after a preposition is when there's motion/direction involved, usually with "en" (in, becomes into with the accusative) and "sur" (on, becomes onto with the accusative).
Hahaha it let me go with not translating "hello" that is pretty funny.
'Paroli' means 'to speak' while 'diri' means 'to say'. So in 'How does one say,' 'kiel oni diras' fits the best. 'Kiel oni parolas' would mean more of 'how does one speak...'.
Why would you the Esperanto sentence not begin with "ču"? Doesn't it have a limited set of answers? From what I know, there is just one (or perhaps several different ways, but that is still limited) to say "Hello" in French.
One question word per question, that's what Salivanto told me. The "how" shows it's clearly a question.
Does that help?
No, I don't think so. The present tense verb ending is -as. I have not come across any -us ending yet.
