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RiotNrrd (Montri la profilon) 2010-januaro-06 05:18:59
tommjames:PMEG[/url] has the following quote:I have trouble believing that that isn't an error*. I checked several of my textbooks, and can find no indication anywhere that "inter" acts any differently than the other prepositions.
Por aĉeti ĝin vi devas pagi inter 100 kaj 200 eŭrojn.
What rule allows the accusative -n to follow "inter" in that example? Obviously I am missing something, somewhere.
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* Which doesn't mean it is an error - I've been wrong before, and probably will be again.
Oŝo-Jabe (Montri la profilon) 2010-januaro-06 07:03:17
RiotNrrd:You are missing something. PMEG: En ĉi tiaj frazoj la rolvortetoj neniel koncernas eventualan postan O-vorton, sed havas sencon nur por la nombro. (En these kinds of phrases the role-word in no way concerns the upcoming noun, but has sense only for the number.)tommjames:PMEG[/url] has the following quote:I have trouble believing that that isn't an error*. I checked several of my textbooks, and can find no indication anywhere that "inter" acts any differently than the other prepositions.
Por aĉeti ĝin vi devas pagi inter 100 kaj 200 eŭrojn.
What rule allows the accusative -n to follow "inter" in that example? Obviously I am missing something, somewhere.
Mi vidis inter cent kaj ducent homojn. → Mi vidis homojn.
ceigered (Montri la profilon) 2010-januaro-06 08:22:23
Effectively, in another interpretation, the "inter .... kaj ...." acts like an adjective, just as "al mia hejmo" in "Mi volas iri al mia hejmo" acts like an adverb describing the course of action of "iri".
But it's not a huge problem - for the most part the accusative is understandable in that sentence via context. Unless of course you're doing Russian reversal on the sentence.
En Soveta Rusio, Inter kvin kaj dek minutoj bezonas VIN!
tommjames (Montri la profilon) 2010-januaro-06 10:47:53
RiotNrrd:What rule allows the accusative -n to follow "inter" in that example? Obviously I am missing something, somewhere.I don't think any rule is needed for this, but in any case Oŝo-Jabe has pretty well explained why it's possible; the "inter" in this case doesn't act upon the noun, but instead the expressions of quantity. It works the same with the other prepositions that have quantity-sense.
Miland (Montri la profilon) 2010-januaro-06 15:01:02
tommjames:Thanks, I've corrected my earlier post. As a number of people have indicated, inter kvin kaj dek has a similar function to cirkaŭ sep, and so we would follow either by the accusative minutojn.
RiotNrrd (Montri la profilon) 2010-januaro-07 02:53:32
