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What exactly does cxi do?

ya Maulrus, 18 Novemba 2010

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Maulrus (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 18 Novemba 2010 5:34:42 alasiri

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

oxymor (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 18 Novemba 2010 5:45:00 alasiri

it gives an idea of proximity.

other exemple :
tie = there
cxi tie = here

Maulrus (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 18 Novemba 2010 5:47:22 alasiri

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

oxymor (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 18 Novemba 2010 6:03:50 alasiri

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 (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 18 Novemba 2010 8:28:25 alasiri

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 (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 19 Novemba 2010 1:32:57 asubuhi

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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