"Domoj en Ĉinio ofte enhavas kortojn."

Translation: Houses in China often contain courtyards.

[Sarah-Cheung]

Jes, sed nur en la vilaĝoj. :D

[smarnv]

Dankon por sciigi tion al ni! :)

[mizinamo]

"Lasanta" is a participle, not a gerund. I suggest "por lasi"... or perhaps simply "por sciigi" :)

[smarnv]

Dankon. I just got to the ig/iĝ lesson and remembered that I could possibly rewrite this sentence somehow using them, but I wasn't sure how. :)

As for the "present participle" vs "gerund", I never really got it which one is which because in English they are both formed from verb + -ing... My bad. :)

[mizinamo]

Yes, the fact that both have the same shape in English often leads to problems when English speakers learn other languages!

[mizinamo]

I wasn't quite sure how, either. "Por sciigi nin pri tio"? "Por sciigi tion al ni"?

[smarnv]

Both, at least according to PIV:

sciigi. Fari iun scianta pri io, aŭ ion sciata de iu: mi estas devigata sciigi vin pri tre malbela fakto, kiu okazis en nia tendaro (Z); mi rapidas sciigi vin, ke alveturis oficisto (Z); kiam oni sciigis al mi la novaĵon (Z); la decido de la Komitato estis sciigita al ĉiuj interesatoj.

(Z) means that the source is L. L. Zamenhof himself.

[mizinamo]

Thank you for the citations for "sciigi"!

[sf2k]

used to. They've been bulldozed for condos

[brunofrra]

I was imagining were in those high density condos was enough room for the courtyard!

[wochenweise]

I suggest for another correct translation: "Houses in China often have inner courtyards."