1.2.8 Questions Flashcards
English use several rather odd syntactic maneuvers in order to form questions, including inversions, the creationof helping verbs for the purpose of inversions, and the use of question words. Esperanto avoids all these an use only question words. This makes its word order fairly intact. Can you remember this perfectly?
Perfectly
The dog is dead = La hundo estas mortinta.
Is the dog dead? = ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
Ĉu la hundo estas mortinta?
You speak Esperanto = Vi parolas Esperanto.
Do you speak Esperanto? = ____ ____ ____ ____
Cu vi parolas Esperanto?
Ne= ____ , ____ and ____-
Not, non and un-
La hundo ne ludas
The dog isn’t playing
La birdo ne flugas
The bird isn’t flying/doesn’t fly
Ne, mi ne parolas la anglan
No, I don’t speak English
Forgeseble= Forgettable Neforgeseble = \_\_\_\_\_\_\_
Unforgettable
Movigita=moved
Nemovigita=____
Unmoved