"Ĝi estas restoracio."

Translation: It is a restaurant.

[arthur0703]

Why not mangxejo ^-^?
And, why do we use gxi in this sentence? I thought that if we use gxi in explanation, we use only estas without gxi...

[mihxal]

"Manĝejo" is a place of eating, so it can be for example dining-room.

"Estas restoracio" would mean "There is a restaurant" not "It is a restaurant"

[arthur0703]

Ah, exactly! Mi dankas vin multe!

[wolfleis]

Esperanto ends with anto. Would have been better to let this word also end with -anto which would make restauranto.

[arthur0703]

The suffix (affix) -anto means something like -ing in English. Esperanto means hoping (esperi = to hope). That's like Dr. Zamenhof was signing.