"Ili renkontas min kaj ludas."

Translation: They meet me and play.

[Dialent]

Why is 'me', 'min' here? Normally, it's only 'mi'.

[Davgwynne]

Accusative for the object.
I think of it as 'mi'='I' and 'min'='me'.
'They meet me' not 'They meet I'

[arthur0703]

From which language did renconti (edit) come?

[Mutusen]

renkonti*

Rencontrer in French.

[natsukilove2]

Yes, the origins of that word equating basically to "re-encounter", which makes it easy to remember. :)

[arthur0703]

Dankon!

[GXLD.]

I love how I'm fluent in French and know where these words come from.

[Novantico]

Advantages of knowing a romance language.

[duolingohai]

Moi aussi

[Daisy87013]

I know french, too. It makes it a bit easier.

[arhop2]

Why is it not using the infinitive here for ludas

[mdubes13]

does this mean 'they' play or 'them and me' play?

[ActualGoat]

It would technically be 'they and I', but to answer your question, I think the subject is 'ili' or 'they'.

[gillpanda1]

Ili tends to mix me up and i forget it a lot. with most words. of course i am still a beginner.

[SimonIXVIV]

this isn't correct

[VirgilSchmidt]

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.

[deactivated user]

"Min" reminds me of Tatar "I"...

[Brooke137956]

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. :(

[brando0o44]

I thought the subject (Ili) should end in an 'o'?

[Nathan_Boyer]

Apparently "They meet me and we play" is wrong smh