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nornen (顯示個人資料) 2015年11月4日下午4:50:03
Alkanadi:Australia is a continentMaybe:
Aŭstralio estas kontinenta
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.
Altebrilas (顯示個人資料) 2015年11月4日下午10:14:38
sudanglo:According to lernu-vortaro, "flori" means "naski florojn". Why "pomi" should not mean "naski pomojn"?
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.
Btw, there is some obvious action associated with apples, and a lot of our troubles came from there.
sudanglo (顯示個人資料) 2015年11月5日上午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.
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.