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Translation q: completion

de Frakseno, 9 de febrer de 2009

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Llengua: English

Frakseno (Mostra el perfil) 9 de febrer de 2009 21.23.51

Doing the ol' "First Esperanto Valentine" this year and of course am running into problems going from English to Eo for some ideas.

The question I have regards the Eo translation of "completion," as in "my heart's completion."

kompletigxo doesn't seem quite right... your thoughts?

ie:
Vi estas la kompletigxo de mia koro

Frakseno (Mostra el perfil) 9 de febrer de 2009 22.03.52

I guess I was looking at the word "completion" as sort of an abstract quality of "complete" (kompleta), while kompletigxo is perhaps confusing to me as the noun-ization of a verb (kompleti, kompletigxi).
But I suppose that what I am referring to is the noun-ization of a process of becoming complete, and so perhaps kompletigxo is the appropriate word...

Rogir (Mostra el perfil) 9 de febrer de 2009 22.27.07

I think in this case kompletigo is more suitable than kompletiĝo.

Frakseno (Mostra el perfil) 9 de febrer de 2009 22.34.20

As my heart is the thing having been made complete, I thought -igxo- was correct. But I am not rarely incorrect...

Or is it that she is the "making complete" of my heart, and thus -igo-?

Miland (Mostra el perfil) 9 de febrer de 2009 23.40.06

Kompletigo would appear to be more appropriate, if the idea is a 'second half' that makes (igas) a person complete.

Frakseno (Mostra el perfil) 9 de febrer de 2009 23.45.12

Indeed - thank you Rogir and Miland!

erinja (Mostra el perfil) 10 de febrer de 2009 13.50.55

I think it's more elegant to say "Vi kompletigas mian koron" (you make my heart complete)

henma (Mostra el perfil) 10 de febrer de 2009 15.48.30

Have you thought of using "komplemento"?

Besides the meaning it has in grammar, it also means "kompletigaĵo" (see second definition in Reta Vortaro (http://www.reta-vortaro.de/revo/)

"Vi estas la komplemento de mia koro" sounds better than "... la kompletiĝo de mia koro", don't you think?

(aŭ "vi estas mia korkomplemento" ĉu ne? ;D)

Amike,

Daniel.

Frakseno (Mostra el perfil) 11 de febrer de 2009 22.17.49

erinja kaj henma,
You are both undoubtedly correct about what sounds better.
I was trying to mirror the phrasing of the English I had written, and so there is a succession of sentences proclaiming, in a vaguely poetic manner, what she has been to me:

You are my a's b,
my c's d,
my e's f,
etc.

So, I'm not sure how best to proceed: the best Esperanto phrasing, or a best attempt at mirroring the English structure of what I'm saying.
I guess I am attached to the structure of the English poem because I am the one who wrote it.
But that doesn't mean that the translation is best served by that mirroring.

Frakseno (Mostra el perfil) 11 de febrer de 2009 22.21.24

henma, I have to admit that I shamefully underutilise the Reta Vortaro, to my own detriment.

In order to preserve the noun, I think that I may prefer your recommendation. Dankon!

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