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In the lesson notes it says that "dimanĉon" equals "next Sunday," but now "next Sunday" isn't accepted. Is there a difference here? Given the context, it looks proper.
By the way, "dimanĉon" literally means "on Sunday", which means "on the next Sunday", or simply "next Sunday".
That would imply repetition yeah. It'd be more like, "Will you visit us on Sundays?"
I think "dimanĉe" does, yes. Or at least it could; not sure if it could additionally be used in the same sense as "dimanĉon", here.
I came here to ask the same question. I don't know when to use "dimanĉon" and "dimanĉe" now.
Why is there an -n for dimanĉo? It's not accusative, nor is there motion towards.
The question here is ‘When?’, therefore the -n-ending needs to be put here. And note this: “The -n ending is used when talking about the upcoming or past occurrence of a specific event:” This means if you want to say something occurs every Sunday you would say ‘dimanĉe’.
Nightflush is right. I also read that the -n ending can also be used to replace a preposition. I think in this sentence you could say, "Ĉu vi vizitos nin je dimanĉo?" and the -n is replacing the "je".
No, the first sentence which I wrote is not right. :) I just found that out:
“Ĉu vi vizitos nin dimanĉon?” is “Akuzativo de mezuro (Accusative of measure)” and here that means time (duration). Question words would be: “kiel longe?, (dum) kiom da tempo?, kiel ofte?” Source: http://bertilow.com/pmeg/gramatiko/rolmontriloj/n/mezuro.html
There also exists the accusative for “tempopunktoj” (I don’t know a good translation for this word into English). An example for this is: “Mi alvenos sabaton.” As both for measure and for “tempopunktoj” the ending is both times “-n” it is not easy to distinguish them. Question words would be: “kiam?, kiudate?, kiutage?, kiujare?, kiufoje?” Source: http://bertilow.com/pmeg/gramatiko/rolmontriloj/n/tempopunkto.html
So the question word here is not “When?” but rather “How long?”.
If you want to express a reoccurring event you would say “dimanĉe” as in “Ni kutime renkontiĝas dimanĉe.”
Regarding the preposition replacing: In theory you can always replace a preposition with “-n” as long as it is understandable. I often replace “al” as in this sentence: “Finfine mi povas skribi vin.” instead of “Finfine mi povas skribi al vi.” You have to pay attention not to make a double accusative as one subject can only have one object in Esperanto. So do not say: “Donu lakton min.” instead of “Donu lakton al mi.” Source: http://bertilow.com/pmeg/gramatiko/rolmontriloj/n/aliaj_signifoj.html
"Tempopunkto" looks like it would be "point in time" from the tiny bit of French and much larger bit of German I speak.
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That was my thought too. I thought I read a comment from Salivanto on another question that using the two kinds of accusative next to each other was not suggested.
