"Li skribis per krajono."

Translation: He wrote in pencil.

[LimeGreenTeknii]

If krajono is pencil, what is crayon? Also, why is it called krajono?

[PatriciaJH]

Crayon, it seems, is "'paŝtelo," which seems to lump children's wax crayons together with expensive artist's oil and chalk pastels.

[mizinamo]

It's probably called krajono in Esperanto because a pencil is crayon in French.

(I don't know what an English crayon would be in Esperanto. vaksskribilo?)

[DominicSal294966]

Every single time I misread krajono as crayon. sigh

[CarloGamag1]

Should he wrote WITH pencil also be write?

[mizinamo]

Should he wrote WITH pencil also be write?

"with a pencil" could work, but not "with pencil".

[DavidLamb53073]

No, it's "skribis" so it must be past tense, "wrote" and not "write" - Or did you perhaps mean to put, "Should he wrote WITH pencil also be right?"

[Ioannes3.16]

False friend, huh?

[Davgwynne]

Not really. Coloured pencils are also called crayons in English: https://www.lexico.com/definition/crayon
Being old fashioned I would automatically call a coloured pencil a crayon but would refer to the wax version as a wax crayon.

[BarbaraMorris]

I call the coloured pencils a "pencil crayon". For me, "crayon" by itself implies "wax crayon".

[DavidLamb53073]

I agree with Davgwynne, at least here in the UK, "crayon" would imply "wax crayon". (A pencil crayon would imply a crayon in the same form as a pencil - a wooden stick with graphite at its centre). Wax crayons tend to be much thicker, and obviously made of wax.

[snailsnail1]

On the translate to Esperanto version, would it accept "Li skribis krajone"?