"Kio estas en tiu kesto?"
Translation:What is in that chest?
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I did a Google reverse image search and it led me to "Se7en".
(Does anyone else pronounce that "se-seven-en"?)
That's the last scene from Se7en, when Brad Pitt's character asks "What's in the box?!".
1982
I always heard of skatolo being the common word for box. Is there a difference between kesto and skatolo?
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.
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?
I had a positive reply to my report : What is there in that chest? is now accepted (2015-10-18).
what is the difference? i still don't understand. Tiu is 'that one' and tio is 'that'?
- 1024
'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?
I don't speak English... I used "basket" and Duo didn't accept it... Is it wrong?
These are baskets: basket; basket; basket
These are chests: chest/trunk; chest/trunk; chest (of drawers); chest (of drawers)
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
I'm confused, I thought enhavas was used for items inside something? Wouldn't the sentence be "Kio enhavas tiu kesto?"
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".)
In the esperanto-english dictionery I found the word "ark" for kesto. Isn't that correct?
"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".
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!
- 1863
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'.
Manĝu terpomojn kaj feliĉiĝu!
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.