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"La najbaroj invitis nin rigardi ilian novan televidilon."
Translation:The neighbours invited us to look at their new TV set.
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2003
What kind of neighbors are these who would invite people to look at their new television but not to watch it?
The new TV is just a good opportunity to invite them to talk. After that, they may stay to watch it.
Mi respondis, "The neighbors invited us to watch their new television", kaj ĝin akceptis
Rigardi = to watch, to look at. Esperantists also use a word "spekti" in context such in this sentence, e.g. "Ĉu vi spektos la ludsportan turniron en YouTube?".
http://reta-vortaro.de and http://vortaro.net say:
vidi = to see (vido = sight, view), percepti per la okuloj.
rigardi = to look (rigardo =look, view), fiksi la okulojn al iu direkto/objekto.
spekti = to watch to spectate (spektanto: spectator), atenti per la vido kaj aŭdo tion, kio estas prezentata. 'Spekti' as a special form of 'rigardi' is less used.
Which gives Harry time to sneak into the staircase closet to grab his school equipment for his summer homework.
How quaint! I remember when colour TV came out in Australia. The whole family did visit friends to see their new TV, and then very soon afterwards we had one too! :)
Do people who don't have cable or broadcast TV called the screens they watch Netflix and play video games on TV sets or monitors or what?
We call it watching TV no matter what device we watch Netflix on, but we don't call the device itself a TV. For example, my kids will ask me "Can I watch TV on your iPad?"
Interesting question! I'm sure it varies from person to person. In my case, the screen I use for all computer things is actually a TV, but I rarely think of it as such because I never use it independent from the computer.
I think this isn't settled yet. From my experience, I can tell you that, here in the U.S., many women in the world of online dating -- I would bet this applies to men too, but I'm not looking at men's dating profiles -- specify that, on the one hand, they either don't own a TV or don't watch TV and, on the other hand, will list their favorite TV to watch on their computers / tablets. Which I always find very strange, particularly since making a point of stating that you don't own something as ubiquitous as a TV or automobile is, at least in this country, usually a form of bragging, usually about how virtuous/wise/non-materialistic/ecologically sound/non-consumer-oriented one is.
tele- = distant (as prefix)
vido = view (as action of seeing
televido = seeing at distance (with transmission of picture through a distance)
-ilo = a tool (as suffix)
tele'vid'il'o = a tool to see pictures/films at distance, ie. a TV set
More practically, isn't televido television as a concept? Eg "television changed the world" (ie a TV set didn't change the world, the general invention did)
televido = television http://vortaro.net/#televido
televidilo = TV set http://vortaro.net/#televidilo
Do you ever call the physical TV set that is in your living room simply a television? If not, the word television would be reserved for the abstract concept of television and that would answer my question
Yes, television/televido is a concept and service, it is something we see at distance.
TELEVIDO =
1 Transdistanca vido.
2 Transsendo de spektaĵoj je granda distanco per elektromagnetaj ondoj
Note that you wrote the same thing. He just went a bit further and added some info. The core "spekti televidilon" is there ¯_(ツ)_/¯
In keeping with syntax, this should be "siajn" televidilon, correct? Otherwise, the sentence infers someone else's TV (and not that of the neighbours).
No. The reflexive "si" relates to the subject of the LAST action.
"La najbaroj invitis nin" + "Ni rigardis ilian novan televidilon."
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I played the sound many times and still couldn’t hear the “nin” properly. I knew there had to be something there and guessed right. This happens sometimes to me in English too, so I am not complaining about the clarity of the recording, nor will I report it. In English I usually have a context to make the correct guess. In Duolingo, with a single sentence, it is harder.
You're true, 'nin' is not clearly pronounced, may be you hear juste its 'i'
Got it wrong for putting "lin" instead of "nin," I blame the pronunciation!
La diferenco? Television (televido) is an action, technique, organisation to show pictures/films at a long distance. Television set (televidilo) is a device to watch.
