Language/Esperanto/Grammar/To-Be-at-the-Present-Tense

To Be at the Present Tense in Esperanto

General form (infinitive) to be

esti

To Be at the Present tense (-as form) 

Conjugation To Be in English	Conjugation To Be in Esperanto
I am	mi estas
you are	vi estas
he is	li estas
she is	ŝi estas
it is	ĝi estas
we are	ni estas
you are	vi estas
they are	ili estas
one is	oni estas

Notes

• est’ is the verb root and always appears wherever the verb is used. Does this verb even have a root in English? (am, is, are)

In the above verb display, note:

• ŝi (she) is pronounced exactly like the English "she"
• ĝi (it) is pronounced like the English "gee!", as in "Jeep"
• vi (you) is both singular and plural, like the English "you."

(There is a word "ci", singular, but it is used much as the English singular "thou" - not very often!)

• Note, too, that although pronouns do not end in -o when they are "subject things", they do take the -n when they are "object things":
  • La patrino lavas la knabon. Ŝi lavas lin. The mother washes the boy. She washes him.

Sources

https://esperanto-afriko.webs.com/kurso%20angle.pdf

Other Lessons

• Interrogative Sentences
• Adverb
• PREPOSITIONS
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• Negation
• Pronouns
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• Prepositions
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