Participles in Esperanto: The Basics

2024:03 • Lee Miller

Participles are used constantly in Esperanto, formed by adding one of several endings to a verb.

About the suffix -ist- and the words for people in occupations and professions

2024:02 • Lee Miller

Every -ist- is an isto, but not every isto has an -ist-!

About “el” and “de”

2024:01 • Lee Miller

English speakers sometimes experience challenges deciding when to use “el” and “de”, because both can often be translated with the word “of”.

atendi, ĉeesti, partopreni, viziti, prizorgi, and atenti

2023:05 • Lee Miller

Atendi is a “false friend” for English speakers learning Esperanto.

The “false friends” praktiki and ekzerci

2023:05 • Lee Miller

One means “to practice a profession”; the other “to practice a skill in order to get better at it”.

All about -um

2023:04 • Lee Miller

The suffix -um broadens or gives a different meaning to the root.

Words that end in -aŭ

2023:03 • Lee Miller

-aŭ isn’t a suffix. You can’t add it to a root to create a new word.

A brief language lesson about ambaŭ

2023:02 • Lee Miller

The word ambaŭ functions as a pronoun and an adjective.

A brief grammar lesson about ankaŭ

2023:01 • Lee Miller

In Esperanto, the word ankaŭ generally goes before the word it modifies.

Using “ol” with the accusative

2022:06 • Lee Miller

In the sentence “Oni ne povas vidi ion pli malgrandan ol sablero”, why doesn’t “sablero” need the accusative ending -n?

Saying “Thank You”

2022:05 • Lee Miller

How do you say, “Thank you for accepting me?”