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FoxtrotUniform (Arată profil) 22 martie 2016, 09:45:41
Example:
What if the good life never comes, will my life be one constant struggle?
Supozu la bonan vivon neniam alvenos, tiam kion mi devus fari? Cxu mia vivo estu unu sencxesa lukto?
Alkanadi (Arată profil) 22 martie 2016, 09:56:49
FoxtrotUniform:What if the good life never comes, will my life be one constant struggle?I am not sure about neniam.
Supozu la bonan vivon neniam alvenos, tiam kion mi devus fari? Cxu mia vivo estu unu sencxesa lukto?
Also, I think it should be:
Supozu la bona vivo...
This is how I would write it.
Kion mi devus fari, se la bona vivo ne alvenus?
thyrolf (Arată profil) 22 martie 2016, 10:54:34
FoxtrotUniform:How do we render the expression "What if" in Esperanto? "Kio se" doesn't seem to fit to me. I used "Supozu....tiam, kion mi devus fari?"Se la bona vivo neniam venos, ĉu mia vivo estos senĉesa batalo?
Example:
What if the good life never comes, will my life be one constant struggle?
Supozu la bonan vivon neniam alvenos, tiam kion mi devus fari? Cxu mia vivo estu unu sencxesa lukto?
Ibraesil (Arată profil) 23 martie 2016, 05:49:49
thyrolf:Se la bona vivo neniam venos, ĉu mia vivo estos senĉesa batalo?Wouldn't it be "venus" and "estus"?
To my understanding, "-us" is for the conditional mood, and there is a condition (if the good live never comes).
SPadern (Arată profil) 23 martie 2016, 06:32:54
Ibraesil:I think that it is very difficult to know which verb form to use for the conditional. I mean, sometimes I want to express time along with it: past, present and future. And then -us won't do.thyrolf:Se la bona vivo neniam venos, ĉu mia vivo estos senĉesa batalo?Wouldn't it be "venus" and "estus"?
To my understanding, "-us" is for the conditional mood, and there is a condition (if the good live never comes).
What if it didn't happen?
What if it isn't happening
What if it won't happen?
Does anybody have advice?
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richardhall (Arată profil) 23 martie 2016, 07:31:48
SPadern:I think that it is very difficult to know which verb form to use for the conditional. I mean, sometimes I want to express time along with it: past, present and future. And then -us won't do.The book/website 'Being Colloquial in Esperanto' is helpful. Here's the section on the conditional: http://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/eo/colloq/colloq12...
Ibraesil (Arată profil) 23 martie 2016, 14:31:43
SPadern:I think that it is very difficult to know which verb form to use for the conditional. I mean, sometimes I want to express time along with it: past, present and future. And then -us won't do.I would imagine "estus -inta", "estus -anta" and "estus -onta", but I'm really not sure.
What if it didn't happen?
What if it isn't happening
What if it won't happen?
Does anybody have advice?
Kirilo81 (Arată profil) 23 martie 2016, 14:53:24
SPadern:I think that it is very difficult to know which verb form to use for the conditional. I mean, sometimes I want to express time along with it: past, present and future. And then -us won't do.Add adverbs of time (jam, nun, estonte...), as -us doesn't express a temporal relation, only a modal one.
What if it didn't happen?
What if it isn't happening
What if it won't happen?
Does anybody have advice?
Do not go the lazy way using estus -inta, unless you want to emphasize that something is finished at a given point of time - which may be in the future (just like esta/i/os -inta).