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Word order and questions

од Alkanadi, 30. мај 2016.

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Alkanadi (Погледати профил) 30. мај 2016. 07.56.07

Is this true?

Kion vi petas = Vi petas kion
Kie vi estas = vi estas kie
Kiu estas tiu = tiu estas kiu

bryku (Погледати профил) 30. мај 2016. 09.43.14

Alkanadi:Is this true?

Kion vi petas = Vi petas kion
Kie vi estas = vi estas kie
Kiu estas tiu = tiu estas kiu
Yes, but add a question mark to be clear. Slavic languages share the same feature:
Kion vi petas? = Vi petas kion?, Polish: O co prosisz? = Prosisz o co?
Kie vi estas? = vi estas kie?, Polish: Gdzie jesteś? = Jesteś gdzie?
Kiu estas tiu? = tiu estas kiu?, Polish: Kim jest tamten? = Tamten jest kim?
Though the second form is rare and used only on certain occasions. I think the same is with Esperanto.

hazelnutfox (Погледати профил) 01. јун 2016. 19.40.37

You can see the second form as a sentence to which you don't know the ending or want it confirmed etc. - you start it, and only at the end add the question particle and change your intonation (in writing - put a question mark, which you, Alkanadi, omitted, making the sentences incomprehensible if you didn't mention questions in the topic).
In English, it would be something like: You ask for what? - Kind of surprised reaction, speaker wants the first person to repeat that part. I believe it's used only (mostly?) in spoken language, of course including dialogues in books (I'm most familiar with those).

Esperanto with its -n doesn't always SVO order in a sentence as the -n form shows what the object is. Polish has even more forms, and tossing and mixing parts of sentence is natural - although, as Bryku says, this form of questions is still rare, such short questions don't allow much reordering.

erinja (Погледати профил) 01. јун 2016. 20.54.41

I'd re-order a question only if I'm verifying what I heard and asking the speaker to fill in the blank, but it's theoretically possible to put the question in any order.

Kion vi volas? = What do you want?

Vi volas kion? = I caught that you want something but I didn't manage to catch what; can you tell me what that was? Or else, surprise. You want WHAT? It would be rare to choose this sentence as a first choice, normally someone has already said something that this sentence would be responding to.

robbkvasnak (Погледати профил) 01. јун 2016. 21.34.23

Vi KION volas?!?!?!
En la polineziaj lingvoj oni demandus: Volas vi kion?
Feliĉe akuzativon havas Eperanto - tia planis Z - granda cerbo, granda animo. Lin mi dankas por tiu libereco.

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