How do you say...
kelle poolt 240-843-895, 5. november 2005
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240-843-895 (Näita profiili) 5. november 2005 9:03.57
240-843-895 (Näita profiili) 14. november 2005 2:39.20
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sd13890 (Näita profiili) 19. november 2005 4:53.04
Manipulate - manipuli ( also handle)
Control - regi (also rule, restrain, govern)
divert - forkonduki
piteredfan (Näita profiili) 22. november 2005 14:09.05
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godzup (Näita profiili) 30. märts 2006 16:13.31
trojo (Näita profiili) 31. märts 2006 21:57.28
"Bro" is neither subject nor object, but the person you are talking to. I don't know what the technical term for that is... addressee? Like if I say, "Fred, I gave the book to John", Fred is not subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition, but something else. I do know that this part of speech, whatever it's called, is considered nominative case, not accusative, in Esperanto. So no -n at the end.
In "talk to you later, Bro", "you" is the object of a preposition and "I" is the ellided subject -- you are really saying "I'll talk to you later".
For "bro" I would use amiko. Figurative use of frato might be confusing.
So how about: Mi parolos al vi pli malfrue, amiko. If that's too wordy, how bout: Ĝis nia reparolo. Or just ĝis.
piteredfan (Näita profiili) 31. märts 2006 23:44.10
The technical term is vocative. I studied Latin at school, and it was regarded as distinct from the nominative, although only grammatically.