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What exactly does cxi do?

от Maulrus, 18 ноября 2010 г.

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Maulrus (Показать профиль) 18 ноября 2010 г., 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 (Показать профиль) 18 ноября 2010 г., 17:45:00

it gives an idea of proximity.

other exemple :
tie = there
cxi tie = here

Maulrus (Показать профиль) 18 ноября 2010 г., 17:47:22

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

oxymor (Показать профиль) 18 ноября 2010 г., 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 (Показать профиль) 18 ноября 2010 г., 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 (Показать профиль) 19 ноября 2010 г., 1:32:57

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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