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Making verbs out of singular nouns

от bdlingle, 02 ноември 2015

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nornen (Покажи профила) 04 ноември 2015, 16:50:03

Alkanadi:Australia is a continent
Aŭstralio estas kontinenta
Maybe:

Australia is a continent.
Aŭstralio estas kontinento.

Aŭstralio estas kontinenta.
Australia is continental.

Aŭstralio kontinentas.
Australia is a continent. Australia has the quality of a continent. Australia behaves (if landmasses can have a behaviour, maybe tectonically) like a continent.

Alkanadi (Покажи профила) 04 ноември 2015, 16:53:50

nornen:
Alkanadi:Australia is a continent
Aŭstralio estas kontinenta
Australia is a continent.
Aŭstralio estas kontinento.

Aŭstralio estas kontinenta.
Australia is continental.
Yes. You are right. My mistake

Altebrilas (Покажи профила) 04 ноември 2015, 22:14:38

sudanglo:

Whilst marteli (to hammer) from martelo (a hammer) is fine as there is an obvious action associated with a hammer. Pomi (to apple) from pomo (an apple) doesn't obviously designate anything.
According to lernu-vortaro, "flori" means "naski florojn". Why "pomi" should not mean "naski pomojn"?

Btw, there is some obvious action associated with apples, and a lot of our troubles came from there. ridulo.gif

sudanglo (Покажи профила) 05 ноември 2015, 10:33:14

There are a number of words in Esperanto that started their life as verbs, and it was only later considered that the head word in the dictionary should be the noun form.

Flori is one of them - with the meaning of flower, flourish, bloom.

So this doesn't represent a paradigm case of a verb from a noun.

Pomo (an apple), on the other hand, has always been considered the base form from which other parts of speech derive their meaning. And that's not surprising as for talking about the world the usefulness of the noun compared to whatever the verb pomi might mean is clear.

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