"The night is purple."
Translation:La nokto estas violkolora.
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I tried 'purpura' out of curiosity (and also not feeling like hitting my shortcut to switch to Esperanto keyboard this time) and it worked. :)
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In context, maybe. In a translation, no. "Vespero" means "evening", and it comes from the Latin word "vesper". "Nokto" means "night", and it comes from the Latin word "noctis".
I still have great problems woth endings when is it a or o or n... like why is it Nokton and when it is not... is there any rule one could get explained?
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Nokto means it is the subject of the sentence, while nokton means it is the object. In this case, the sentence is describing the night as a subject, so it is nokto.
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"Nokton" is only used when "night" is the driect object of a sentence. In this case, there is no direct object. A direct object would be like "ŝi legas libron". Its happening to a book, not just describing how the book is. "Nokton" would be for something like "a scream pierced the night", which i don't know how to say in Esperanto.
Dankon al vi, Vincento! http://rlv.zcache.com/purple_green_starry_night_famous_vincent_van_gogh_poster-r273b88363df947aa97ea8311dd8c2c30_ir5tk_8byvr_1024.jpg
