La terapiisto legas la diagnozon antaŭ ol rehabiliti lin.

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Breakdown of La terapiisto legas la diagnozon antaŭ ol rehabiliti lin.

• legi: to read
• antaŭ: before
• ol: than

Questions & Answers about La terapiisto legas la diagnozon antaŭ ol rehabiliti lin.

Why does diagnozon end in -n?

The -n marks the direct object in Esperanto.

Here, la terapiisto is doing the action, and la diagnozon is the thing being read, so diagnozo becomes diagnozon.

A very literal breakdown is:

• la terapiisto = the subject
• legas = reads
• la diagnozon = the direct object

This -n ending is called the accusative.

Why is it lin and not li?

For the same reason: lin is also a direct object form.

• li = he
• lin = him

Since the person is the one being rehabilitated, Esperanto uses lin, not li.

Can lin refer to la diagnozon?

No. Lin means him, so it refers to a male person or male animal, not to diagnozo.

If you wanted to refer back to diagnozo, you would normally use ĝin instead, because diagnozo is a thing, not a male person.

So the sentence structure tells you that:

• la diagnozon is what gets read
• lin is the male person who later gets rehabilitated

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