Questions & Answers about La informo estas vera.
Why is there la at the beginning?
La is the Esperanto definite article, like the in English.
So la informo means the information.
Esperanto has only one definite article: la. It does not change for gender, number, or case.
A few examples:
- la libro = the book
- la libroj = the books
- la bona libro = the good book
There is no indefinite article like English a/an. So informo by itself can mean information / a piece of information, depending on context.
Why does informo end in -o?
In Esperanto, nouns normally end in -o.
So:
- informo = a noun
- vera = an adjective
- estas = a verb
This makes word classes very easy to recognize.
Other noun examples:
- domo = house
- hundo = dog
- ideo = idea
Because informo ends in -o, you can immediately tell it is a noun.
What exactly does informo mean? Is it the same as English information?