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naamatt (User's profile) July 13, 2013, 10:21:23 AM
I have a question: How do you say "my father's name" in Esperanto? I couldn't figure out how to say "my ___'s ___".
yyaann (User's profile) July 13, 2013, 10:42:30 AM
Granted, you can quite reliably replace "___'s ___" by "la ___a ___o". Zamenhof's language -> La zamenhofa lingvo.
However, doing the same with "my ___'s ___" might result in confusion. Mia patra nomo would likely be understood as "the name I bear as a father".
An unconventional alternative would be La miapatra nomo ([mia patro]a -> miapatra) but for clarity's sake it's best to reserve this for literary usage.
Thus, the safest option is la nomo de mia patro.
naamatt (User's profile) July 13, 2013, 1:07:22 PM
pdenisowski (User's profile) July 14, 2013, 7:24:11 PM
naamatt:Hi Everyone!If you want to say "my father's name is ..." you could use "mia patro nomiĝas ..."
I have a question: How do you say "my father's name" in Esperanto? I couldn't figure out how to say "my ___'s ___".
Amike,
Paul