Ties vivresumo estas sur la tablo.

Ties means that person's or more literally that one's.

It belongs to the Esperanto correlatives:

• kies = whose
• ies = someone's
• ties = that one's / that person's
• ĉies = everyone's
• nenies = no one's

In this sentence, since a résumé belongs to a person, ties vivresumo is naturally understood as that person's résumé/CV.

They are all possessive, but they do not mean exactly the same thing.

• lia = his
• ŝia = her
• ĝia = its
• ties = that one's / that person's

So ties is useful when you want a demonstrative idea, pointing to someone already identified as that one, without stating gender.

For example:

• lia vivresumo = his résumé
• ŝia vivresumo = her résumé
• ties vivresumo = that person's résumé

So ties is often more neutral and more context-based.

Yes. La vivresumo de tiu or, more clearly, la vivresumo de tiu persono can work.

But ties is shorter and more elegant when you specifically want a possessive meaning.

Compare:

• ties vivresumo = that person's résumé
• la vivresumo de tiu persono = the résumé of that person

Both are understandable. Ties is just the more compact possessive form.

Because vivresumo is a compound noun:

• viv- = life
• resumo = summary

So vivresumo means life-summary, i.e. résumé/CV/biographical summary.

If you said viva resumo, that would mean a lively summary, because viva is the adjective alive/lively. So that would be a different meaning.

This is a very common Esperanto pattern: the first element is used like a root inside a compound, and the main word comes last.

It is certainly a well-formed and easily understandable Esperanto word.

Esperanto often creates words this way, by combining roots into transparent compounds. So even if a learner has never seen vivresumo before, it is easy to understand from the parts.

In real life, some speakers might also use other expressions depending on context, including CV, but vivresumo is perfectly clear Esperanto.

Because this sentence describes location, not movement.

• sur la tablo = on the table
• sur la tablon = onto the table

So:

• Ties vivresumo estas sur la tablo. = The résumé is located there.
• Mi metas ties vivresumon sur la tablon. = I put the résumé onto the table.

This is a very important Esperanto pattern: with many prepositions, the -n ending can show direction or movement toward something.

Esperanto has the definite article la, but it does not have an indefinite article like English a/an.

So:

• la tablo = the table
• tablo = a table / table

In this sentence, la tablo suggests a specific table that is known from the context.

If you said sur tablo, it would sound more like on a table.

No, Esperanto word order is fairly flexible, though subject–verb–rest is the most neutral pattern.

So:

• Ties vivresumo estas sur la tablo. = neutral
• Sur la tablo estas ties vivresumo. = also correct, with more focus on the location

Because Esperanto uses endings and prepositions clearly, word order can be changed more freely than in English for emphasis or style.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

TI-es viv-re-SU-mo ES-tas sur la TA-blo

A few useful points:

• ties has two vowels pronounced separately: ti-es
• stress in Esperanto is always on the second-to-last syllable
• every written vowel is pronounced

So the stress falls on:

• TI-es
• vivreSUmo
• EStas
• TAblo

That regular stress pattern is one of the nice things about Esperanto.