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A little phrase to help beginners with the basic tenses.

de thirddaykid, 21 mai 2012

Messages : 24

Langue: English

thirddaykid (Voir le profil) 21 mai 2012 02:45:40

Here is a little phrase I came up with to help me remember the basic suffixes for the past, present, and future tenses.

As it is, it was, as it is, always it will be. (always = os; play on words)

PAST: As it -is, it was,
PRESENT: -as it is,
FUTURE: -os it will be.

Tell me what you think, or if you have your own devices for remembering these.

Ĝereto.

hebda999 (Voir le profil) 21 mai 2012 06:10:13

thirddaykid:...

PAST: As it -is, it was,
PRESENT: -as it is,
FUTURE: -os it will be.

...
Kill me, man. They are only six letters! Such a big problem to remember that?

Try: isasos

fajrkapo (Voir le profil) 21 mai 2012 08:46:48

hebda999:

Kill me, man. They are only six letters! Such a big problem to remember that?

Try: isasos
Isasos Usu, important greek bussiness man...
dont be so cruel with the boy!
Ne estu tiel kruela kun la knabo Hebda! he´s got ilusion making rules...
But for the correlatives he will need Hammurabi´s Code at least ridulo.gif

hebda999 (Voir le profil) 21 mai 2012 09:04:09

fajrkapo:
Isasos Usu, important greek bussiness man...
Isasos Usui - don't forget the infinitive.

fajrkapo (Voir le profil) 21 mai 2012 09:21:38

hebda999:Isasos Usui - don't forget the infinitive.
Hoooo, jesss, vi pravas, mi forgesis...I forgot
Ankaŭ mi forgesis la Antikvan egiptianan kuzon de Isasos, Itatot Intantont, (onklo de Tutanhamon) la familio kreskas...umm
too me forgot the old egiptian cousine of Isasos, Itatot Intantont, tutanhamon´s uncle, la family growing up (i forgot it was in english, too, take the pill, ...)

thirddaykid (Voir le profil) 22 mai 2012 03:27:15

hebda999:
thirddaykid:...

PAST: As it -is, it was,
PRESENT: -as it is,
FUTURE: -os it will be.

...
Kill me, man. They are only six letters! Such a big problem to remember that?

Try: isasos
No offense taken. It is not that hard to remember, I am just starting. In my head when I was first learning the tenses I kept saying: is was, as is, os will. I just extended it to become a full phrase. I actually know them now without having to think of the phrase, but thought it was a clever mnemonic device. I was wondering if anyone had their own mnemonic devices for remembering things in Esperanto.

acdibble (Voir le profil) 22 mai 2012 03:41:40

It usually better to learn things in context:

Mi estis, mi estas, mi estos.

I was, I am, I will be.

fajrkapo (Voir le profil) 22 mai 2012 11:50:27

thirddaykid: I was wondering if anyone had their own mnemonic devices for remembering things in Esperanto.
as, is, os, the first always for the present--a-,
the others occupate the same places i-o than (a-e-i-o-u), i pass, o future. l-e-r-n-u, u the last for imperative: a-e-i-o-u
they are small memory rules but can be useful, or funny at least.

In the correlatives you have -am for time ( pronounce ta(i)m)
-om, for quantity, number, you could use at-om example, kiom da mono havas vi?, kiom-a horo estas?

cFlat7 (Voir le profil) 22 mai 2012 12:58:53

I have avoided memory devices involving English words in them as I have wanted to ultimately speak and think in Esperanto with as little English 'baggage' as possible.

xdzt (Voir le profil) 22 mai 2012 19:26:10

cFlat7:I have avoided memory devices involving English words in them as I have wanted to ultimately speak and think in Esperanto with as little English 'baggage' as possible.
On a related note, the only mnemonic device I've ever learned was "sohcahtoa" for "sine: opposite/hypotenuse, cosine: adjacent/hypotenuse, tangent: opposite/adjacent" -- my math teacher loved that phrase and drilled it into our heads. Even today it flashes up when I deal with any trigonometry -- and I hate it. It firmly compounded the idea that mnemonics are just extra things to memorize and are ultimately counterproductive when compared with simply memorizing the thing.

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