La fama dentokliniko akceptas pacientojn.

The -n ending marks the direct object in Esperanto: the thing receiving the action.

• akceptas = accepts
• pacientojn = patients

So pacientojn is the thing being accepted, which is why it gets -n.

Because the word is also plural, it has both:

• -j for plural
• -n for direct object

So:

• paciento = a patient
• pacientoj = patients
• pacienton = a patient, as direct object
• pacientojn = patients, as direct object

Because dentokliniko is the subject, not the object.

In this sentence, the famous dental clinic is doing the action of accepting. The clinic is not being accepted; it is the one accepting patients.

So:

• La fama dentokliniko = the subject
• akceptas = the verb
• pacientojn = the direct object

La means the.

Esperanto has only one definite article: la. It does not change for gender, number, or case.

It appears before fama dentokliniko because that noun phrase is definite: the famous dental clinic.

There is no word for a/an in normal Esperanto, so pacientojn simply means patients. Depending on context, that could be understood as patients, some patients, or the patients, but in this sentence it is most naturally just patients.

Adjectives in Esperanto agree with the nouns they describe.

Since dentokliniko is:

• singular
• not in the accusative

the adjective also stays:

• singular
• without -n

So:

• fama dentokliniko = famous dental clinic

If the noun were plural, you would get:

• famaj dentoklinikoj = famous dental clinics

If it were direct object singular:

• faman dentoklinikon

If it were direct object plural:

• famajn dentoklinikojn

Yes. The ending -as marks the present tense in Esperanto.

So:

• akcepti = to accept
• akceptas = accepts / is accepting / do accept

Esperanto verbs do not change according to person or number. The same form is used with all subjects:

• mi akceptas = I accept
• vi akceptas = you accept
• li/ŝi/ĝi akceptas = he/she/it accepts
• ili akceptas = they accept

So akceptas does not specifically mean third person singular the way English accepts does. It is just the present-tense form.

Exactly. Esperanto often builds words by combining meaningful parts.

dentokliniko can be understood as:

• dento = tooth
• kliniko = clinic

Together, dentokliniko means dental clinic or literally something like tooth-clinic.

This kind of compounding is very common in Esperanto and is one of the language’s most productive features.

Both patterns exist in Esperanto, but they are not always exactly the same in style.

• dentokliniko = a compound noun, dental clinic
• denta kliniko = literally dental clinic using an adjective

The compound form is very natural in Esperanto and often feels compact and ordinary. In many cases, compounds are preferred or very common.

So dentokliniko is not strange at all; it is a normal Esperanto way to build vocabulary.

Adjectives can come before or after the noun in Esperanto, but before the noun is more common in neutral everyday usage.

So:

• la fama dentokliniko = normal and natural
• la dentokliniko fama = possible, but more marked or stylistic

A learner should usually put adjectives before the noun unless there is a special reason not to.

Because Esperanto verbs do not agree with nouns in number.

English says:

• the clinic accepts
• the clinics accept

Esperanto does not change the verb that way. The verb stays the same:

• La dentokliniko akceptas...
• La dentoklinikoj akceptas...

Only the noun changes for plural, not the verb.

Yes. Esperanto word order is fairly flexible because the -n ending helps show what is the object.

The neutral order is:

• La fama dentokliniko akceptas pacientojn.

But you could also say:

• Pacientojn akceptas la fama dentokliniko.

That might put more emphasis on pacientojn.

Even so, learners should usually stick with the standard subject–verb–object order unless they have a reason to change it.

In this kind of sentence, akcepti pacientojn often means something like:

• to accept patients
• to receive patients
• to take patients
• sometimes to admit patients, depending on context

So the exact English wording can vary a little. The Esperanto sentence is natural for saying that the clinic is open to treating or receiving patients.

A rough pronunciation is:

la FA-ma den-to-kli-NI-ko ak-CEP-tas pa-tsi-EN-toyn

A few useful points:

• c is pronounced like ts
• j is pronounced like English y
• oj sounds roughly like oy
• stress is always on the second-to-last syllable

So:

• fama → FA-ma
• dentokliniko → den-to-kli-NI-ko
• akceptas → ak-CEP-tas
• pacientojn → pa-tsi-EN-toyn

Here are the base forms:

• la = the
• fama ← from fama = famous
• dentokliniko ← from dentokliniko = dental clinic
• akceptas ← from akcepti = to accept
• pacientojn ← from paciento = patient

This is useful because Esperanto grammar is very regular: once you know the base form and the endings, you can usually work out the sentence structure quickly.