La pneŭo bezonas pli da premo.

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Breakdown of La pneŭo bezonas pli da premo.

• bezoni: to need
• pli: more
• da: of

Questions & Answers about La pneŭo bezonas pli da premo.

Why does bezonas end in -as?

In Esperanto, -as marks the present tense. So bezonas means needs / is needing.

The verb stem is bezon- = need.
Then:

• bezonas = needs
• bezonis = needed
• bezonos = will need
• bezonus = would need
• bezoni = to need

Also, Esperanto verbs do not change based on the subject. So:

• mi bezonas
• vi bezonas
• la pneŭo bezonas
• ili bezonas

all use the same -as ending for the present tense.

Why is there la before pneŭo?

La is the definite article, like the in English.

So la pneŭo means the tire. In context, this usually means a specific tire that the speaker and listener already have in mind.

Esperanto has only one article, la, and it does not change for gender, number, or case in its basic form.

A few useful contrasts:

• pneŭo = a tire / tire
• la pneŭo = the tire
• pneŭoj = tires
• la pneŭoj = the tires