"I am at home."

Translation: Mi estas hejme.

[fxeyub837]

Why does 'hejme' mean 'at home'?

[johmue]

"hejmo" is the noun for "home". "mia hejmo" = "my home"

Thus "hejme" is the adverb form. So "Mi estas hejme." is "I am at home"

[nudpiedo]

It doesn't make me sense at all this translation... Should then we make an adverb for every place we are? "Mi estas parke", "la heijmo estas kore"...

[DavidStarner]

Home is counted as an English adverb. "Mi iras hejme" = "I'm going home". So it's not unheard of in Esperanto's source languages.

[Sa967St]

Screw you guys, mi iras hejmen! - Cartman

[Revilo_N]

*hejmen.

[jan-palisa]

So like, "I'm going homeward"?

[Christophe114357]

Ĉu ni ne eblas tajpi "ĉe hejmo" por respondo? Eble, mi ne povus kompreni "ĉe" teil, kiel mi pensis.

[Lorenhey]

Could you say "Mi estas en la hejmo"?

[nathankoren]

That would be "I am in the home", raising the question of whose home you are in. By taking the form of an adverb, "I am home" -- in both English and Espranto -- is actually describing your state of being ("estas") as being home-like ("hejme"), which is not the same as simply being in a home.

[nudpiedo]

So, if the home is where your heart is; "La hejmo estas kore" ????

[nathankoren]

As I understand it, that would literally mean "the home is being heart-like", which seems like a legitimate if somewhat unusually poetical thing to say.

[pxrfAZo6]

Is it possible to say "Mi estas cxe"? I understand Duo isn't looking for this here, but would it translate to something like "I am at mine"? Or would I need to say "Cxe mi" instead..

[salivanto]

Prepositions (like ĉe) have to have something after them.

• Mi estas ĉe mi.
• I am at my place.

And

• Kvankam mi estas ĉe mi, mi ne sentas min hejme.
• Although I am at my place, I don't feel at home.

[MetroWestJP]

Could one use: "Mi estas ĉe mi."?