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leejy5 (프로필 보기) 2019년 1월 11일 오전 9:19:47
on the other hand
"Hodiaŭ estas lundo." means "Today is monday."
(All of these Esperanto sentences are from Google Translation)
Then......
hodiaŭ is definitely an adverb as you can see in the first sentence.
But, what is going on in the second sentence?
How can an ADVERB be a subject? I think, a NOUN which means today should be there.. I've known Esperanto do not have any grammatical exceptions, so I need a clear explanation about it.
p.s.
I'm a pure Korean, learned English at school. but it's not perfect so I might have used unnatural expressions above. I hope you understand that
sudanglo (프로필 보기) 2019년 1월 11일 오후 2:04:11
Some of these words can be and are used in different grammatical classes. Google Translate is correct - you can say both Mi laboras hodiaŭ and Hodiaŭ estas lundo.
sergejm (프로필 보기) 2019년 1월 12일 오전 1:58:30
Gramatika strukturo de la angla kaj Esperanta frazoj estas malsamaj, sed ili signifas la samon.
Sed preskaŭ ĉiu vorto povas agi kiel substantivo, 'hodiaŭ' same. Ekz. 'lernu' - nome de nia pagaro.
'Hodiaŭ estas lundo' is the answer to the question 'Kiam estas lundo?' (When is Monday?), not 'Kio estas lundo?' (What is Monday?). So it also is an adverb.
Gramatical structure of the English and Esperanto frases are not same, but the meaning is same. Google Translate is correct.
But about any word can act as a noun, 'hodiaŭ' also. E.g. 'lernu' - the name of our site.
Davet1986 (프로필 보기) 2019년 1월 12일 오전 5:53:40
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nornen (프로필 보기) 2019년 2월 19일 오후 9:58:33
Either the subject is omitted and lundo is a predicate noun:
Hodiaŭ [la semajntago] estas lundo:
Adverbial of time - [subject] - copula - predicate noun.
Or lundo is the subject:
Hodiaŭ estas lundo.
Adverbial of time - verb - subject.
I am more inclined to the first option.