What is "no matter" in Esperanto?
od MiEstasDavid, 22. listopada 2011.
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MiEstasDavid (Prikaz profila) 22. listopada 2011. 06:16:40
Hundies19 (Prikaz profila) 22. listopada 2011. 06:49:12
MiEstasDavid (Prikaz profila) 22. listopada 2011. 06:51:07
Hundies19:"Kion ajn mi faras" Would literally be Whatever I do. Or that's what the lessons i've bean taking say . Hope that helps, someone else will correct me if i'm wrong.Thanks, Hundies! But would it work the same? That's what I'm trying to find out.
Hundies19 (Prikaz profila) 22. listopada 2011. 07:01:09
Malgraux would probably be necessary for clarity since the other sentence could be translated simply along the lines of;
I eat no matter what I happen to be doing.
Srcoco (Prikaz profila) 22. listopada 2011. 07:04:44
darkweasel (Prikaz profila) 22. listopada 2011. 08:32:34
Srcoco:i'm still a komencanto, but i would say: "ne gravas kion mi faras; mi daŭre manĝas"This is definitely possible.
You can definitely say:
Kion ajn mi faras, mi daŭre manĝas.
I think Hundies19’s malgraŭ proposal is not very comprehensible, and anyway it has some grammatical errors (malgraŭ io ajn, kion mi faras).
MiEstasDavid (Prikaz profila) 22. listopada 2011. 09:38:40
Chainy (Prikaz profila) 22. listopada 2011. 12:37:37
This sounds like a rather disturbing statement, though!
maxbox51 (Prikaz profila) 31. listopada 2011. 19:48:23
MiEstasDavid:Is it just "kio ajn"? For example, does the sentence "No matter what I do, I keep eating." become "Kio ajn mi faras, mi daŭre manĝas." in Esperanto? Thanks!... mi daŭras mangi.
Literally, "I continue to eat," which may be a little closer to "I keep eating" than mi daŭre manĝas, "I continually eat". Perhaps even better,
... mi manĝadas.
This is more like "I eat and eat and eat."
darkweasel (Prikaz profila) 31. listopada 2011. 21:55:16
maxbox51:You mean mi daŭrigas manĝi.
... mi daŭras mangi.