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the verb voli (to wish)

sublimestyle, 2010 m. rugsėjis 19 d.

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RiotNrrd (Rodyti profilį) 2010 m. rugsėjis 19 d. 17:56:26

The accusative never follows "esti". Even if "esti" is part of a multi-verb construction.

You could also render the sentence as

Mi volas forti.

since "estas Xa" = "Xi", where "X" is a root. Usually this construction implies a sense of some sort of action being involved, but I'm not sure how absolutely necessary that is.

ceigered (Rodyti profilį) 2010 m. rugsėjis 20 d. 06:36:20

I noticed the talk of the accusative following esti, so I wondered if sentences like:

Mi volas forta esti

are considered usable...

I'm assuming when we say "following esti/any other verb" we mean "the object or key attachment to any verb that would be following in normal word order"?

Genjix (Rodyti profilį) 2010 m. rugsėjis 20 d. 07:51:41

Mi volas forta esti ... = Mi volas ke forta estas ...

Ĉu ne?

ceigered (Rodyti profilį) 2010 m. rugsėjis 20 d. 08:42:15

Genjix:Mi volas forta esti ... = Mi volas ke forta estas ...

Ĉu ne?
Mmmm. I was going to say that normally I don't think people would understand it like that, since we always use the "ke" in Esperanto, but I do recall having seen some strange subject+verb+subject+infinitive patterns around the place, not sure if they're correct or not.... So good thing to bring up, Genjix ridulo.gif

darkweasel (Rodyti profilį) 2010 m. rugsėjis 20 d. 09:06:13

Genjix:Mi volas forta esti ... = Mi volas ke forta estas ...

Ĉu ne?
nothing wrong with that word order but your explanation sentence is wrong - it has to be mi volas ke mi forta estu

erinja (Rodyti profilį) 2010 m. rugsėjis 20 d. 17:55:03

No point in using the weird word order, which adds confusion in this case.

Why not just "Mi volas esti forta"?

Normally we only use the -u ending when the two verbs have a different subject. "mi" is the subject of both verbs here, so we can use this simple constructino.

Certainly we wouldn't say "Mi volas ke mi venu" instead of "Mi volas veni".

But we would say "Mi volas ke vi venu", because the subject of "vol/" is "mi", whereas the subject of "ven/" is "vi", so we need a different form.

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