"Monta deklivo ne estas bona loko por bieno."
Translation:A mountain slope is not a good place for a farm.
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I think "terasa bieno" is correct. The Esperanto Wikipedia article of teraso (found here) mentions the agricultural meaning of the word.
Is it not true that people make terrace farms because they don't have any other land to farm on? On the other hand, I do know that in some regions, vineyards are put on the sunny side of a mountain in preference to the flat ground.
@Raztastic, for a good explanation and history about "bieno", see this discussion from the Duolingo EO Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/duolingo.esperanto.learners/permalink/531338803694808/
Would it be possible to form another word for slope out of existing roots? I mean we have already:
klino = tilt, incline
ejo = place
suben = downwards
any ideas anyone?
Lernu.net's dictionary gives the alternative option "malsuprenirejo". It's malsupren (downwards) + iri (to go) + -ejo (place), so a place that goes downwards.
I guess subenirejo would also be a possibility.
The thing is a slope usually goes both down and up, depending on which way you're traveling.
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“Oblikvejo” (oblikva = slanted) might be a possibility. But it does not seem to be widely used at all, and oblikva can refer to a deviation from the vertical as well as from the horizontal.
“Klinejo” is also somewhat ambiguous as *klini' does not only mean “to tilt” but also “to bend (sth) down,” “to bow (sth).”
So there seem to be good reasons for the root “dekliv-.”
Says who? I think that a mountain slope would be an excellent place for a farm.
I would say no, it shouldn't be accepted. A better translation for "hill" is monteto.
I don't understand why this is a adjective noun construction. Would a car door be an auta pordo? The front door of a house, doma pordo? I could understand something like a fire door, metala pordo. The meaning of the sentence suggests that slope is modifying mountain.
In English we use the noun to modify another noun. You can't do that in Esperanto, so the noun must become an adjective.
good point actually...which again shows that English not seldomly is the odd one (out) here. For example in German and in Swedish you compose new words so that problem is not so obvious there. There are enough examples, though, where words in English have gone from separarated via bound thru a dash to compond words:
- week end
- week-end
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weekend
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door way ...etc
just mina dua cents
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Tekstaro de Esperanto:
montdeklivo: kvin trafoj de Engholm, Szilágyi.
montodeklivo: ses trafoj de Engholm, diversaj personoj.
monta deklivo: du trafoj de Lidja Zamenhof, Szathmári.
Unu verkisto skribis ambaŭ "montdeklivo" kaj "montodeklivo" en du malsamaj libroj.
Tekstaro can be a dangerous tool. One thing for sure, though, monta deklivo and montdeklivo have to mean different things - from the principles of Esperanto word formation.
I don't think these numbers tell us anything about what the expressions mean or whether the author was using them correctly.
I intended to leave that question as an exercise for the reader. :-)
I did a whole unit on this in one of my group classes this summer.