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johmue (显示个人资料) 2016年6月29日上午9:07:13
Alkanadi:Nun iu frapis la pordegon de la kastelo...I had discussions about that with several people. I think it is correct, because it means something like "Now is the time, that the long awaited knocking at the door is finally in the past."
Nun = now
frapis = hit in the past
Is this sentence grammatically correct?
So if the event, that the past tense verb is talking about, changed some situation in the way, that you can say there is a before and an after, I think the combination of "nun" + past tense is actually quite useful.
If on the other hand the event is of minor importance, I wouldn't use "nun" but "jxus". For example "Jxus bojis hundo."
Alkanadi (显示个人资料) 2016年6月29日上午10:01:12
johmue:I had discussions about that with several people. I think it is correct, because it means something like "Now is the time, that the long awaited knocking at the door is finally in the past."Thanks. I was reading the Esperanto story about the Princess and the Pea. The author uses Nun and a past tense verb three times in the story.
At first I thought it was a typo and should have been Nu.
opalo (显示个人资料) 2016年6月30日下午6:13:28
Nun in the past is equivalent to en/ekde tiu momento, with the suggestion of a sudden event, or a change in circumstances. The purpose is to place you mentally in the scene, and make the narration more vivid: La malfacila vojaĝo daŭris semajnon, kaj nun mi staris antaŭ la pordo.
