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Help with "tia ke oni respondu ĝin"

de Zvoc47, 1 aprilie 2016

Contribuții/Mesaje: 5

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Zvoc47 (Arată profil) 1 aprilie 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 (Arată profil) 1 aprilie 2016, 21:01:52

Why shouldn't this be possible?

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

dombola (Arată profil) 1 aprilie 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 (Arată profil) 2 aprilie 2016, 01:32:14

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 (Arată profil) 2 aprilie 2016, 05:42:51

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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