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Verbs in Esperanto


The verb in a sentence indicates what's happening.

For example: The man walks. What is the man doing? He is walking. The verb "walk" indicates what is the action of the sentence.

A verb has a distinct property. It indicates when something is happening (I walk, I walked, I will walk).

A verb that does not indicate when something happens is called the infinitive verb, and in English is preceded by "to" (to walk, to swim, to fly, to eat).

An infinitive verb in Esperanto always ends in "i". When you remove the i, you have the stem of the verb, and using that stem you can later form all the tenses.

to sing	 kanti
to fall	 fali
to sleep	 dormi
to walk	 promeni
to sit	 sidi
to stand	 stari
to go	 iri
to be	 esti
to have	 havi
to play	 ludi
to read	 legi


Now we can put the verb in a certain tense, meaning that we can add a little ending to the stem that will indicate in when the action is taking place.

When something is happening in the present, it is called the present tense (I walk, you sleep, we eat).

In Esperanto, the present tense is formed by adding "as" to the stem of the verb, irregardless of who is the subject of the action.


to sing	 kanti
I sing	 mi kantas
We sing	 ni kantas
You sing	 vi kantas
He sings	 li kantas
She sing	 sxi kantas
They sing	 ili kantas
the children sing	 la infanoj kantas
the city is beautiful	 la urbo estas bela
the cities are beautiful	 la urboj estas belaj
the street is long	 la strato estas longa
the streets are long	 la stratoj estas longaj

Sources

https://unilang.org/course.php?res=64

Contributors

Maintenance script, 51.37.172.238, Vincent and PabloWang


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