"Domoj en Ĉinio ofte enhavas kortojn."
Translation:Houses in China often contain courtyards.
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"Lasanta" is a participle, not a gerund. I suggest "por lasi"... or perhaps simply "por sciigi" :)
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. :)
Yes, the fact that both have the same shape in English often leads to problems when English speakers learn other languages!
I wasn't quite sure how, either. "Por sciigi nin pri tio"? "Por sciigi tion al ni"?
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.
I was imagining were in those high density condos was enough room for the courtyard!
I suggest for another correct translation: "Houses in China often have inner courtyards."
