"German is not an ugly language."
Translation:La germana ne estas malbela lingvo.
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Oh, ja, es ist eine sehr schöne Sprache! I'm so glad that I picked it at school! :P
why do you have to put La? If you look under translations for german it says germana, so why is the la necessary?
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All of the world languages have "la" in front of them. "La germana" is short for "la germana lingvo" ("the German language").
Only transitive verbs have direct objects, and only active verbs can be transitive. It's the direct object that takes the accusative. Esti is a stative verb. It takes a subject complement, not a direct object. Therefore anything after esti is nominative.
Two reasons: One, the -n suffix marks the accusative, and that's only for direct objects, not the subject. Two, adjectives must agree with their nouns, so if it were accusative, it would be "la germanan lingvon".
Deutsche sprachen ist nicht hässlich, Leute. Es ist sehr schön und es ist die besste!
"Germana" is an adjective. "La germana" is short for "la germana lingvo".
I'm not sure about "langla" but, nestas means "nest" as a verb. For instance, La birdo nestas en arbo. The bird is nesting in a tree.
In Esperanto, it is allowed to contract “la” and nouns by leaving out the final vowel and replacing it with an apostrophe, so you can say “l' angla”, similar to French (although unlike French, you have to keep the space). This contraction can be used for euphony, but (as far as I know) it is not often used in normal speech. You can see it in Esperanto poetry, though: here are three examples from La Espero by L. L. Zamenhof, the unofficial Esperanto anthem: “al la mond' [mondo] eterne militanta”, “Sub la sankta signo de l' [la] espero”, “ĝis la bela sonĝo de l' [la] homaro por eterna ben' [beno] efektiviĝos”
It's worth pointing out that what you say here doesn't change the fact that KonradKond8's intentionally wrong usage here is... wrong. What he "likes" doing, and what is practical or correct are not necessarily the same.
IamJustintime's comment on "nesting" is right on. - and there are certainly many good reasons not to elide the A in la. While "langla" is not a word, there are certainly plenty of pairs like:
- la fiŝo / l' afiŝo.
- la bato / l' abato
- la belo / l' abelo
- la bono / l' abono
The list could go on and on.
Your intentionally wrong usage here is... wrong. What you "like" doing, and what is practical or correct are not necessarily the same.
IamJustintime's comment on "nesting" is right on. - and there are certainly many good reasons not to elide the A in la. While "langla" is not a word, there are certainly plenty of pairs like:
- la fiŝo / l' afiŝo.
- la bato / l' abato
- la belo / l' abelo
- la bono / l' abono
The list could go on and on.
Oversight. Next time that happens, flag it and report "My answer should be accepted."
There is no object here. There is no action to be received. "To be/esti" is a verb of state. It compares/equates the subject with the subject complement.
