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Making Toast

de Evildela, 31 ianuarie 2011

Contribuții/Mesaje: 24

Limbă: English

Evildela (Arată profil) 31 ianuarie 2011, 10:36:34

Ok, so I was thinking today (I know crazy right!) How would you say something like "I spread Vegemite across my toast"

The word for Vegemite in Esperanto is "Veĝemajto"

ceigered (Arată profil) 31 ianuarie 2011, 10:40:26

Mi (ĉirkaŭ)ŝmiras Veĝemajton sur mia rostpano (el unu flanko trans la alian flankon lango.gif although that intentionally long bit in these brackets probably could be cut)

I'd so badly call it "Veĝimajto" were I in charge!rido.gif

horsto (Arată profil) 31 ianuarie 2011, 17:20:47

ceigered:Mi (ĉirkaŭ)ŝmiras Veĝemajton sur mia rostpano
Mi ŝmiris (metis) Veĝemajton sur mian rostpanon.

freeze10108 (Arată profil) 1 februarie 2011, 02:15:24

horsto:Mi ŝmiris (metis) Veĝemajton sur mian rostpanon.
May I ask why "mian rostpanon" is in the accusative? It's not a direct object, and it's after a preposition, and I thought that one didn't put the accusative after prepositions. demando.gif

Alciona (Arată profil) 1 februarie 2011, 04:07:36

freeze10108:
horsto:Mi ŝmiris (metis) Veĝemajton sur mian rostpanon.
May I ask why "mian rostpanon" is in the accusative? It's not a direct object, and it's after a preposition, and I thought that one didn't put the accusative after prepositions. demando.gif
It indicates direction. You're spreading the Vegemite onto the toast. Take these examples:

La kato saltis sur la tablo (The cat jumped on the table. This indicates that the cat was already on the table and jumped while on the table.)

La kato saltis sur la tablon (The cat jumped onto the table. In this instance the cat was somewhere else and has jumped onto the table.)

If the Vegemite was in a jar and you are applying it to toast, you'd use the accusative. If it was already on the toast and you were smearing it about, you wouldn't.

ceigered (Arată profil) 1 februarie 2011, 06:52:11

Mmm, that's interesting, I've never thought of spreading stuff onto toast as involving direction... More placing the spread onto the toast then spreading lango.gif. Perhaps a cultural (or subcultural) difference, since I've never used nor heard much of "spread (peanut butter) onto", where as I'd assume other languages have "spread onto/spread on (+ dative?)" used... Nonetheless, I can't forsee any problems with spreading the stuff "sur rostpano", although there would clearly be a change in the emphasis and possibly misleading either way if used in the wrong circumstances.

I'm guessing in German it's something along the lines of "auf den Toast" rather than "auf dem Toast"? (Laŭ tiu ĉi paĝo: auf.

darkweasel (Arată profil) 1 februarie 2011, 07:31:36

ceigered:
I'm guessing in German it's something along the lines of "auf den Toast" rather than "auf dem Toast"? (Laŭ tiu ĉi paĝo: auf.
yes, in German I'd definitely use the accusative here.

sudanglo (Arată profil) 1 februarie 2011, 11:34:05

I wouldn't think this is a case where the accusative of direction is absolutely obligatory. You are hardly going to be standing on the toast and 'ŝmiring'.

By the way 'Toasto' is less cumbersome and more specific than rostita pano (which might anyway be more than a pantranĉajo - pano is bread and 2 panoj is two loaves.)

Miland (Arată profil) 1 februarie 2011, 11:51:35

Wells has both rostpano and toasto. The first one might be more easily understood by Esperantists who are not speakers of English.

darkweasel (Arată profil) 1 februarie 2011, 12:02:34

Miland:roastpano
Rostpano. (Unless that's a typo in the dictionary you've cited.)

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