Topic: Esperanto

"La malo de granda estas malgranda."

Translation:The opposite of big is little.

July 4, 2015

5 Comments

https://www.duolingo.com/profile/TheRealFlenuan

    The words granda and malgranda should be in quotation marks.

    July 4, 2015
    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/zerozeroone
    • 4

    Is there a reason for doing this in Esperanto? I haven't found a web site that explains the use of quotations marks (citiloj) in Esperanto.

    October 2, 2015
    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/TheRealFlenuan

      The reason for doing this is that the sentence is merely referring to the words granda and malgranda, not using them. It's not specific to Esperanto.

      October 4, 2015
      https://www.duolingo.com/profile/R_R1234
      • 20

      And the opposite of good is not good

      October 5, 2017
      https://www.duolingo.com/profile/AdamScott794079
      • 28

      These sound so much worse and less poetic in English.

      October 9, 2017
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