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Should Esperanto correlatives agree when they link the same items?

di rgvandewalker, 10 maggio 2019

Messaggi: 4

Lingua: English

rgvandewalker (Mostra il profilo) 10 maggio 2019 14:59:59

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

nornen (Mostra il profilo) 10 maggio 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 (Mostra il profilo) 10 maggio 2019 19:32:30

Thank-you very much!

Metsis (Mostra il profilo) 11 maggio 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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