"Estas multe da noktaj busoj en Londono."
Translation:There are many night buses in London.
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I rather like the idea of nocturnal buses. But they dinged me for that.
Ironic, since "nocturnal" is one of the possible translations Duo lists for "nokta".
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Duo dinged me for writing "night bus" without a space, but I'm seeing the unspaced version in some places, e.g. [http://www.tfgm.com/nightbus/Documents/Manchester-Nightbus-Map.pdf] or [https://www.trentbarton.co.uk/nightbus]. What say ye?
I guess 'multaj noktaj busoj' would be equally correct? Or 'multaj noktobusoj'?
I think so.
I dislike "da" after an adverb or a preposition because then you have something which is not headed by a noun acting as a noun phrase and you completely lose the ability to distinguish between nominative and accusative.
"Ĉasas multe da katoj multe da hundoj," could be "Many cats chase many dogs," or "Many dogs chase many cats."
"Ĉasas multajn katojn multaj hundoj," is shorter and unambiguous.
Quite a sophisticated dislike! But I see what you mean. Case-haters will consider it an advantage, of course. ;)
Haha, but it's not like you can use it all the time to get around cases.
It just annoys me because the decision to have a simple, regular accusative case in the language was made. It means you can always distinguish subject from object, freeing up word order ... apart from these exceptions.
You can get around it a lot of the time:
"multe da" => "multa(j)(n)" "tro da" => "troa(j)(n)"
But there is no way to get around "kiom da" because "kioma(j)(n)" has a different meaning.
Small things. Small things.
Not totally sure what a "night bus" is, but I answered "night-time" buses and got counted wrong. I assume Duo is referring to [buses that operate on a nightly schedule]?
It's a common term in London, and I guess throughout the UK. You will also find it in Harry Potter. Or rather, if memory serves, there's a 'knight bus' there, but that's a pun on night bus. Surely, given words like night shift and night nurse, night bus can't be that hard to figure out? Or are they all strictly British? (I'm Dutch myself.)
Mi estas usonano, kaj tute komprenas la ideon. (La patrino estis, mallonge, nokta flegistino)
@GastonDorren Duo didn't accept "night-time", so I couldn't help but wonder if Duo might be referring to something else.
it's a bus route that runs after hours. It's a thing in Translink BC, and probably Translink in Northern Ireland. sorry busses is my hobby
I said "there are many buses at night in london" which is saying the same thing. But it was wrong.