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Should Esperanto correlatives agree when they link the same items?

od rgvandewalker, 10. svibnja 2019.

Poruke: 4

Jezik: English

rgvandewalker (Prikaz profila) 10. svibnja 2019. 14:59:59

Duolingo translates "Whose auto is that?" as "Kies aŭto estas tio?" Would better Esperanto be "Kies aŭto estas tie?"

nornen (Prikaz profila) 10. svibnja 2019. 16:00:41

"Tio" refers to "aŭto" and there is indeed agreement between both: singular and inanimate.

"Kies aŭto estas tie?" means "Whose car is there?"

If you do not want to refer back to "aŭto" but to "kies", the right correlative would be "ties".

Ekzemplo de Zamenhof: Kies gasto mi estas, ties feston mi festas.

Kies panon mi manĝas, ties kanton mi kantas. = Whose bread I eat, his song I sing. = Wes(sen) Brot ich ess, des(sen) Lied ich sing.

rgvandewalker (Prikaz profila) 10. svibnja 2019. 19:32:30

Thank-you very much!

Metsis (Prikaz profila) 11. svibnja 2019. 13:30:26

Just a minor addendum to Nornen's good explanation. For some reason the genitive correlatives are the same in singular and plural.

Kies gasto mi estas, ties feston mi festas.
Kies gastoj ni estas, ties festojn ni festas.

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