"Her grandfathers are people."

Translation: Ŝiaj avoj estas homoj.

[FredCapp]

I want to read that as "her grandfathers are homies"

[_Travis_]

Also true.

[lexipoopss]

why is "her" plural here?

[johmue]

Because it's two grandfathers.

[northernguy]

johmue

I take it that what you are saying is that since grandfathers is plural the possessive pronoun her has to agree with it and be plural as well.

[Vortarulo]

That's right. If a noun is plural, also the corresponding adjectives (including possessive pronouns, which are also adjectives) have to be. Same if the noun is in the accusative. The adjectives mirror them.

[GreyWolfEmber]

So it matches in number and case? (hmm, like Latin! minus gender, of course)

[Rae.F]

Yes, exactly. Although in Esperanto, the only things that get marked are plural and accusative.

[Kelirya]

Am I right that "Ŝiaj avoj homas" would be impossible?

[Brucolac]

I was wondering the same; at least it's not accepted. Can anyone confirm, please?

[Rae.F]

Verbing adjectives will give you "to be [adjective]" but verbing nouns will give you "to use [noun]". It's like in English when you hammer something. You're saying that you're using a hammer, not that something is a hammer.

[Laffesta]

Ŝiaj avoj estas krokodiloj.

[nunes89]

Why does "geavoj" seem always to be wrong? :/

[Vortarulo]

Because geavoj means avoj kaj avinoj (both genders). But "grandfathers" is just avoj.

[Kelirya]

Yes, geavoj means grandparents.

[PurpleHuedMagPie]

Why is "prapatroj" not a possible answer? Doesn't "pra" mean ancient or ancestor?