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What exactly does cxi do?

af Maulrus, 18. nov. 2010

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Maulrus (Vise profilen) 18. nov. 2010 17.34.42

As far as I can tell, it modifies tio from "that" into "this". Am I right? Does it do other stuff too?

oxymor (Vise profilen) 18. nov. 2010 17.45.00

it gives an idea of proximity.

other exemple :
tie = there
cxi tie = here

Maulrus (Vise profilen) 18. nov. 2010 17.47.22

Ohh, so it modifies those correlatives into their physically closer equivalents.

oxymor (Vise profilen) 18. nov. 2010 18.03.50

Exactly!
And it can also be used with other type of words.

Pagu la ĉi-jaran kotizon = pagu la kotizon de ĉi tiu jaro.

Maulrus (Vise profilen) 18. nov. 2010 20.28.25

oxymor:Exactly!
And it can also be used with other type of words.

Pagu la ĉi-jaran kotizon = pagu la kotizon de ĉi tiu jaro.
That means "pay the yearly subscription"? (I had to look up kotizo)

erinja (Vise profilen) 19. nov. 2010 01.32.57

Pay *this year's* subscription.

If it's just a regular yearly subscription, for any hear, that's a jara kotizo. But a ĉi-jara kotizo is a subscription for this year (might cost more this year than last!)

As a vocabulary note, a kotizo is not only a subscription fee, but also a membership fee or a registration fee. Therefore you pay a kotizo (subscription fee) for a magazine subscription, you pay a kotizo (membership dues) to your national Esperanto association, and you pay a kotizo (registration fee) to sign up for an Esperanto convention.

The word "kotizo" seems to have widely varying meanings compared to English, but it makes more sense when you understand that its root word is the verb "kotizi", meaning "to pay one's share of the cost for a common expense" (common in the sense of shared among multiple people)

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