"Kio estas en tiu kesto?"

Translation: What is in that chest?

[aParanoidIronman]

[jumpthewalls]

Beat me to it.

[RDelisciou]

My exact thought!

[theBarkingSpider]

What movie is that? I know that I've seen it, but can't remember.

[Rae.F]

I did a Google reverse image search and it led me to "Se7en".

(Does anyone else pronounce that "se-seven-en"?)

[BastouXII]

That's the last scene from Se7en, when Brad Pitt's character asks "What's in the box?!".

[FredCapp]

Sed "box" estas skatolo, ne kesto

[-Zorua-]

You found a Red Rupee! It's worth 20 Rupees!

[SnekMuffin]

Red Rupees kinda look like Lingots.

[LuisRodrigoRuiz]

I always heard of skatolo being the common word for box. Is there a difference between kesto and skatolo?

[CloudeAytr]

The difference is to do with mainly size and sometimes material.
Kesto: generally bigger containers; crates, chests. Includes things like mailboxes (leterkesto), and drawers (tirkesto).
Skatolo: smaller containers; cereal box, jewelry box, match box, etc. also tin cans, or other types of containers.

La vorto "ujo" can ankaŭ be used synonymously in most places skatolo and kesto are used, also kesto seems to take favour whenever there's uncertainty.

[roemer]

Simpler to remember: skatolo is box and kesto is chest.

[FredCapp]

And Tirkesto is a drawer.

[YosunChang]

For the hovertext, why are both "that" and "this" listed for "tiu"? Should it be just "that"? Doesn't the "this" require an extra "cxi" particle?

[ray919]

"Tiu" simply points to some specific thing. That thing doesn't need to be far away. So it can mean "this" or "that".

[salivanto]

In real life, you're right.

Within the course, though, less so.

[lingvulo]

Yes, you're exactly right.

[YosunChang]

great - do you know how I can submit an error retroactively (after the question is over)?

[lunzie]

I got the impression that tiu was used when there is more than one chest in the vicinity and we want to know what us in this (or that) particular chest.

[salivanto]

You're correct. Within the Duolingo course, it's best to be very strict about the difference between "this" and "that" because most of the questions will be corrected strictly, but in the real world when there's only one box, there's no reason to add ĉi
.

[roemer]

In most languages in many cases "this" and "that" can be used interchangeably. "What do you think about this/that idea?" I have been VERY frustrated with Italian questo/quello this/that, I always seem to get that wrong because I don't feel any difference (and being Dutch where the difference is even smaller).

[Rae.F]

"This" and "that" might be somewhat interchangeable for discussing abstract concepts, but for concrete things it's clearly a matter of "this/these" are closer physically and "that/those" are farther away.

[LaArakido]

Duo accepts both:

• What is there in that box?
• What is in that chest?

But not:
• What is there in that chest?

What is the difference?

[Rae.F]

No difference. Please submit a report so they can fix it.

[LaArakido]

Thanks. Will do.

[BastouXII]

I had a positive reply to my report : What is there in that chest? is now accepted (2015-10-18).

[BastouXII]

Had the same "error". Reported (2015-10-13).

[mikeharvatt]

Miranda kesto antaŭen.

[ShubhamRaut]

This is a good sentence explaining the difference between usage of 'tiu' and 'tio'

[farfallegialle]

what is the difference? i still don't understand. Tiu is 'that one' and tio is 'that'?

[ShubhamRaut]

'tio' is used to denote 'that' when there is not object.

Kie estas tio? = Where is that?

'tiu' is used to denote 'that' when there is an accompanying object, or to denote 'that one'

Kie estas tiu cxapelo? = Where is that hat?

[carbsrule]

Ne tuŝu ĝin!

[PamelaHaith]

Nenio. Gxi estas mimiko.

[HWF10]

I don't speak English... I used "basket" and Duo didn't accept it... Is it wrong?

[Rae.F]

These are baskets: basket; basket; basket
These are chests: chest/trunk; chest/trunk; chest (of drawers); chest (of drawers)

[HWF10]

Obrigado! :)

[jjjosenaldo]

I had NO idea those things were called chests. I assumed that the "chest" as a translation of "kesto" was the body part.... so "kio estas en tiu kesto?" roughly translated to "what do you feel about it?" in my head lol

[Deus.Bacchus]

Mind your own business, Adamo

[AdamScott794079]

Mi sxatas grandajn kestojn

[fieryice12]

I'm confused, I thought enhavas was used for items inside something? Wouldn't the sentence be "Kio enhavas tiu kesto?"

[Rae.F]

Just like in English, you can say "What is in that chest?"/"Kio estas en tiu kesto?" and you can say "What does that chest contain?"/"Kion enhavas tiu kesto?" (You need "kion" to be in the accusative because it's the direct object of "enhavas".)

[fieryice12]

thanks, that clears it up.

[maxkoryukov]

kio ≠ who

more details are here: https://www.duolingo.com/skill/eo/Food

[FredCapp]

Panjo… Kiu estas en tiu kesto?

Neniu, estas nur korpopartoj.

[MohsenNiro1]

In the esperanto-english dictionery I found the word "ark" for kesto. Isn't that correct?

[Rae.F]

"Ark", as in "The Ark of the Covenant", is a chest or cupboard that holds the Torah scrolls. But in these lessons, it's best to go for the most common meaning, which here is "chest" or "box".

[Deceiver-Samurai]

I have a question. Isn't tiu supposed to be used when talking about people instead of things? Can someone clear this up for me. Dankon!

[carbsrule]

Tiu means 'that', usually with something after it: tiu auto that car, tiu domo that house. When alone it can mean either 'that one', 'that (thing which is obvious from context)', or 'that person'. These correspond with kiu which can mean 'which (one)' or 'who'.

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Manĝu terpomojn kaj feliĉiĝu!

[FredCapp]

For me, the simple way to think of this is, is there a noun being referenced?
If the answer is yes, use tiu, kiu,
If the answer is no, then tio, kio take that role.
This is not correct 100% of the time, but I can't think of any examples where it isn't.