"Kion vi vidas en la foto?"

Translation: What do you see in the photo?

[Wallydogdirt]

I see... an ink blot.

[Pethanise]

Du ursoj sur la fontano :D

[JasonPParis]

Calm down Rorschach

[pablussky]

Why "en la foto" but "sur la ekrano"? I'm a bit confused about the prepositions since in Spanish we use "en" for both situations.

[UnframedCactus]

Forgive me if I am mistaken, but I believe the difference between the two is that "en" is closer to the English "in", whereas "sur" is more like the English "on". I'm not entirely sure how to explain how that corresponds in Spanish, since "en" in Spanish can more or less take either of those two meanings. If it helps, I might say that the English "in" is closer to "dentro de" in Spanish, whereas "on" is closer to "encima de", at least in my mind.

[pablussky]

Yeah, I guess so. But being a logical language as it is, I thought in Esperanto would be the same preposition for both situations, since both are quite the same, but I don't know...

[danielqsc]

Well, I think "sur" would have a different meaning here. I think something "en la foto" is something captured by the camera, and "sur la foto" would be something that's on the paper (e.g. coffee poured).

[UnframedCactus]

From what I've observed, Esperanto tends go for the sweet spot between being intuitive and eliminating context-dependency, the latter especially when it comes to Esperanto's prepositions

[captaingimpy]

Pieces of esperanto seem like they vacillate between 'logical' and 'What's going on' depending on the skill and one's native language, LOL!

[UnframedCactus]

I can't say I disagree too much, haha :)

[ArioSana]

"en la video". "en la libro" but "sur la paĝo". "en/sur la letero" . Do "en/sur la foto. Trovu vin en la foto kaj skribu vian nomon sur la foto.

[EINaj2]

Las preposiciones en Esperanto no tienen una equivalencia exacta con nuestras preposiciones, y eso me lleva en ocasiones a errores como es con el "en" y con el "sur".

Lo que encontré por Internet es que "en" se usa como una especie del "en" español cuando nos referimos a que algo está dentro de otra cosa, como "en la foto", "en la urbo", "en la libro": todas esas frases te indican algo que están dentro del sustantivo, ya sea una persona en la foto, una casa en la ciudad o una frase en el libro.

Mientras que "sur" sería como "encima" o "en", cuando se refiere a que está tocando, como "Libro sur la tablo", "un libro encima o sobre la mesa".

Supongo que si se usara "sur la foto" te estarías refiriendo a algo que está justo encima de la foto y no la imagen que contiene la foto en sí.

No estoy segura de que sea así totalmente, pero es lo que entendí de las lecciones por Internet y es la regla que suelo emplear. Espero que así se aclare mejor.

[TuSani]

Sounds like the beginning of a horror film

[b0bbik]

how do we say who do you see in the photo ?
kiun vi vidas .... au kiu vi vidas ?

[AlgoAmoeba]

As far as I know they follow the rule of adding -n to a direct object.
Thus, in your sentence "kiun" would be used.

[Psiborgue]

Doesn't look like anything to me.

[tylerrcoll]

So... is 'Cu' (cxu) not used for questions that start with what/when/who/where/how?

[Samuel597450]

Yes it is for yes/no questions

[Kthulhu1]

Jojo reference.