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- "La suno brilas."
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This is the first Esperanto sentence in Helen Fryer's "The Esperanto Teacher: A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians", which was, as far as I can tell, the first Esperanto textbook written for regular people in the English language.
I was marked wrong for trying "The sun is brilliant", thinking that it could be a verbed adjective. Was I wrong, or should I report this as "my answer should have been accepted"?
"Brili" comes from the Italian "brillare" and Spanish "brillar"- both of which mean to shine. Those words come from the Latin "beryllus" which referred to a certain kind of gem which shines.
The English "brilliant" comes from the same Latin word, but with a different meaning.
From lernu.net:
brili (bril·i) (intr) to shine, to glow
brila (bril·a ← bril·i) brilliant, bright
So, instead of brilas being a verbed adjective, it's brila that's an adjectivized verb.
It didn't accept "The sun shines." The book I had studied recently says this translation would be correct, too.
Yes, it should be correct. Next time this happens, please flag it and report "My answer should be accepted."
