"Momenton!"
Translation:Just a moment!
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Seems like "Hold on!", "One second!", and "Wait a minute1" are all things a person might say instead of "Just a moment!" that serve much the same function.
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Can you say, "Unu momento!" in Esperanto, like you do in English, or is that too literal?
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"Unu momenton!" should work - keep the accusative.
I think this is the accusative of measurement, the same one that crops up in "tri kilojn peza" or "ni laboris la tutan tagon".
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Or it could be accusative because it implies a larger sentence where momento is the direct object, just like "saluton" and "gratulon".
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Yes, I understand "Momenton!" as a short for "Atendu momenton!" or "Donu al mi momenton!".
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Probably "Donu al mi momenton." If I understand things right, "atendi" isn't a transitive verb and it would probably be "atendu momente".
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atendi is transitive (mi atendas vin "I am waiting for you").
But in atendu momenton, momenton is not the direct object; it's in the accusative of measurement.
Compare e.g. the quote Adiaŭ, sep jarojn atendu min! from Zamenhof in the PIV dictionary entry for atendi -- the direct object is min and sep jarojn (in the accusative) describes for how long the listener shall wait for the speaker.
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Just a tick! was not accepted - it is English vernacular but valid. Like "wait a sec" or "hold on a tick"