"Ili renkontas min kaj ludas."
Translation:They meet me and play.
July 2, 2015
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Davgwynne
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Accusative for the object. I think of it as 'mi'='I' and 'min'='me'. 'They meet me' not 'They meet I'
meaning?
I ask because I personally think the English translation should be "They meet with me and play". In other words, in Esperanto (as in other European languages -- thinking of German), these words may be dropped, but that doesn't mean the translation should drop them.
However, I do understand the translation is not wrong.
I said "They meet and play with me," which was wrong. Besides the language difference, does the sentence itself have a subtly different meaning? To me, "they meet me and play" sounded a) a bit awkward to say and b) like a bunch of kids met me then ran off to play amongst themselves, leaving me all alone. :(