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Esperánta Vortprovízo por Ánglay Parolántoy
Esperanto vocabulary for English speakers

Kompréni kay stsíi / Understanding and knowing

 



Note: In our Esperanto pages we use a slightly altered spelling, avoiding the use of consonants with diacritics; in addition, we indicate the stress of each word with an acute accent.


altered spelling / usual spelling

ch [ʧ] < ĉ chokoládo : ĉokolado chocolate

j [
ʤ] < ğ *jardéno : ğardeno garden

kh [
χ] < ĥ Khánokh : Ĥanoĥ Enoch

sh [
ʃ] < ŝ shanélo : ŝanelo channel

w [w] <
ŭ Awgústo : Aŭgusto August

y [j] < j Yórko : Jorko York

zh [
ʒ] < ĵ zhurnálo : ĵurnalo newspaper


chu vi komprénas? do you understand?

chu vi komprénis? did you understand?

mi ne komprénas I don’t understand

mi krédis ke mi komprénis, sed mi ne komprénis I thought I understood, but I didn’t understand

 

chu vi komprénis min? did you understand me?

 

neníu komprénis min! nobody understands me!

 

la ekspértoy ne komprénis, kíel tío okázis the experts didn’t understand how that happened

 

kíom mi komprénas, íli estas právay as far as I can see (“how much I understand”) they are right

 

íli ankóraw ne komprénis bóne kío okázis they still don’t really know what happened

 

mi ne komprénis, kíal íli tíel agis I don’t understand why they acted like that

 

li ne komprénis, kíal shi ne vólas partopréni he doesn’t understand why she doesn’t want to take part

 

íli bonbóne komprénis ke la mástro éstis tre koléra

they understood only too well that the boss was very angry

 

neníu komprénis nobody understood

 

ni ne komprénis la chínan língvon, kay ánkaw li ne komprénis la ánglan we didn’t understand Chinese and he didn’t understand English either

 

mi ne stsíis tíam kíon tío signífis, kay mi ne stsías nun kíon *ji signífas

I didn’t understand then what that meant, and I don’t understand now what it means

 

mi ne stsíis pri la aksidénto I didn’t know about the accident

 

koméntse mi ne stsíis, kíel mi alvénis tíen

in the beginning I didn’t understand how I got there

 

mi ne stsías, kíuyn libroyn vi légis yam

I don’t know which books you have already read

 

ĉu vere vi ne stsias, kio estas epistemologío?

is it true you don’t know what epistemology is?

 

telefónu al mi se vi ne stsías kíel úzi la nóvan prográmon

telephone me if you don’t know how to use the new programme

 

mi légus la líbron ántau nun, se mi éstus stsíinta, ke *ji éstas tíel bóna

I’d have read the book before now if I’d known it was so good

 

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Lásta *jisdatígo / Latest update 2006-02-01
FINO / END

 

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