"Vi ŝatas vidi bestojn."

Translation: You like to see animals.

[Rippler]

Including blobfish? I don't like to see blobfish.

[maxkoryukov]

All I need to remember:

• vidi = to see
• rigardi = to watch
• rigardi = to look

[cassincork]

I keep mishearing "vi" as "mi" which is annoying to me.

[Rob790395]

me too

[phaeluis]

Me not

[ghassanarabe]

"You like watching animals" was not accepted, it totally should've been.

[tiger8255]

You like watching animals. would be Vi ŝatas observas bestojn. I believe.

I'm not entirely sure if it can be translated like that, but You like to watch animals. would be Vi ŝatas observi bestojn.

[salivanto]

or rigardi bestojn.

[MickeytheGreat]

Can you make "bela" a noun? For example, "Mi vidas belo" for I see (a) beauty?

[mnwilhelm3]

"Belo" would be the concept of beauty itself. There is a construction -ulo that you can add to an adjective to mean "a person/thing characterized by the adjective" so belulo = a beautiful person/man and belulino = a beautiful women (or a "beauty" as we say in English).

[-Zorua-]

I just had this sentence a few questions ago and mistranslated vi as you. Then I got it again and made the same mistake. STUPID DANISH SUBCONSCIOUS.

[Rippler]

But vi does mean you in Esperanto.

???

[-Zorua-]

I mean I mistranslated it as we. Again, stupid Danish subconscious. [bangs head against wall]

[dudeski123]

Velkommen i klubben, vi har samme problemet litt nord for deg. =P

[Alimond13]

Samme problem med Norsk

[Rob790395]

Haha Mickey. What you wrote looked like "you sexy beast".

[MickeytheGreat]

Could you say something like "Vi sxatas bestvidi"?

[mnwilhelm3]

That sounds like it would be an activity that involved watching animals (like the English "birdwatching") but in that case "bestrigardi" would be be more appropriate. I don't know enough about Esperanto however to say definitively.

[EdgardoJos18289]

.i put vi sxatas midi bestojn and got correct with a typo lol

[Majklo_Blic]

Can ŝati ever be used in the imperative? I'm thinking of the hypothetical case of a hypnotherapist telling someone, "Vi ŝatu vidi araneojn. Araneoj ne teruras vin."