"Mi ne povos vivi sen kuko."

Translation: I will not be able to live without cake.

[_Feanor]

The cake is lie

[Pensulo]

Portal reference?

[Haytham172317]

You beat me to it :v

[Prosodio]

La kuko estas malvero.

[reyley1014]

I get you duo. I do.

[GEOvanneGEO]

You live by the cake you die by the cake.

[katamanto1]

Jen la historio de mia vivo

[Hsien.duol]

MOOD

[Cherokea5618]

Same

[bguiz]

Why is "I can not live without cake" not acceptable here? In English"can" can be both present and future tense, when used in this manner, is it not?

[BrandonDyer]

"Povos" is future tense. So you need the future version of "can not" which in English is "will not be able to".

[Andr16065]

a poor language indeed ;-)

@bguiz I think you refer to the simple present tense which can be used to express a habit which as such of course has a certain duration(but that is not a unique English thing afaik). But hier in DL we try to stick to the grammar which is closest to that of the other language and/or which is most unambig...

just mina deux cents...

[habadashagostop]

Heck, Duo. Same.

[tomwestbury1]

In this case, would I be able to use "could" as in "I could not live without cake"? if not, why?

[Sarah-Cheung]

Marry the cake, kara!

[Cal-H]

You and me both!

[AzzerBoi]

This appeals to me on a personal level

[emmi_j]

ankaŭ mi :')

[BermanCindy]

I wrote I cannot live without cake. That seems right as well

[Mr.Cals]

Can we replace 'povos' with 'kapablos' ?

[Ceeit0]

"I can't live without cake" wasn't accepted. It implied future but I understand why :(

[DuolityOfMan]

I keep mixing up kuko and koko. I thought "I won't be able to live without a chicken" was kind of weird.

[DuolityOfMan]

All your kuko are belong to us.

[VoxSilentum]

I will not live without cake should also suffice

[NicolasDaL698501]

No. "I will not live" would be "mi ne vivos".

Here we have "mi ne povos vivi", so I will not be able to live".

Those are different.

[Novantico]

I thought so too at first, but that would probably be "estos" instead of "povos"

[NicolasDaL698501]

No, it would be "mi ne vivos" for "I will not live".

[I-Omer-I]

s-s-sed l-la kuko estas mensogo...

[salivanto]

If I had a nickel.