"Mi amas la naturon apud la maro."
Translation:I love nature beside the sea.
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I am a native English speaker who has lived in London, New Orleans, and San Diego.
The use of nature in this situation does not seem natural to me. The phrase natrural envrionment seems better but still clunky. I would use the word environs.
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Also a native English speaker (Australian), and I agree. Nature is generally a word we use to describe all of nature, not just one particular part of it. I would use landscape, terrain or countryside here instead of nature.
I used "environment" and "natural atmosphere" and both times I was marked wrong.
Because it's common in Romance languages to use the definitive article before a noun to refer to a generality rather than anything in specific.
"Tiel estas la vivo." = "That's how life is." or "Such is life." Here, "la vivo" refers to life in general, not any life in specific.
"Mi amas la naturo." = "I love nature." Here, "la naturo" refers to nature in general.
"Mi neniam komprenos la virinoj." = "I will never understand women." Here, "la virinoj" refers to women in general.
Mi esperas ke ĉi tio helpu vin!
Dear errant1:
I beg your permission to correct some small mistakes, just because here we are learning Esperanto:
"Mi amas la naturon".
"Mi neniam komprenos la virinojn."
Mi esperas ke ĉi tio helpos vin!
Because in Esperanto one says "la naturo" in cases where you'd say "nature" in English.
it's a bit confusing though, because I'm pretty sure there were previous duolingo exercises in which abstract nouns (like la naturo) didn't require the definite article. can anyone clarify?
Esperanto is spoken by people from many different language backgrounds, so you'll hear different uses of the definite article. But because of its large influence from Romance languages, it's common to say things like "la naturo."
I don't know any English speaker who would say a thing like this. I get that where we'd normally just say "nature" in Esperanto it's, "the nature", but in this particular sentence the English should also be, "the nature". Or, as others have suggested, another word/phrase entirely.
I think you're right. This use of "nature" doesn't seem natural to me. I think we'd be more specific, e.g. "I love the wilderness by the sea", "I love the vegetation by the ocean", or "I love the forest by the sea". Something like that.
"I love the nature beside the sea" is now accepted. I think the significant point here must be that the sentence is not talking about nature in general, but is specifically limiting it to the nature beside the sea, and in that context, "the nature" sounds better in English.
Tie mankas unu "the" antaux "naturo". Estu "I love the nature beside the sea."