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Help with "tia ke oni respondu ĝin"

kelle poolt Zvoc47, 1. aprill 2016

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Zvoc47 (Näita profiili) 1. aprill 2016 19:44.06

I've been reading the detailed info about suffixes and saw this sentence. How can the undefined pronoun contain an imperative verb? What does that mean? Does it mean that "they-some-people need to respond to it"?

nornen (Näita profiili) 1. aprill 2016 21:01.52

Why shouldn't this be possible?

One mustn't tell lies. = Oni ne mensogu.

dombola (Näita profiili) 1. aprill 2016 23:47.41

Zvoc47: What does that mean?
Tia, ke oni respondu ĝin.
Such that one answer it.
In such a way that one answer it.
In such a manner that one answer it.

yyaann (Näita profiili) 2. aprill 2016 1:32.14

Here is a similar construction that might surprise you as well: "Kion ni faru?" (What should we do?)

The conjugation in -u expresses more than just the imperative.

nornen (Näita profiili) 2. aprill 2016 5:42.51

yyaann:The conjugation in -u expresses more than just the imperative.
The u-form does indeed cover the spectrum of exhortative, cohortative, adhortative, propositive, jussive, optative and imperative.

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