La evoluo estas bona.

to be

Breakdown of La evoluo estas bona.

• bona: good
• la: the
• evoluo: development; evolution

Questions & Answers about La evoluo estas bona.

Why does evoluo end in -o?

In Esperanto, every noun ends in -o. So evoluo is a noun.

You can think of it like this:

• evolu- = the core idea
• evoluo = the noun form
• evolua = adjectival form
• evolui = verb form

That regular ending system is one of Esperanto’s biggest features.

Why is there la at the beginning?

La is the definite article, like the in English.

So la evoluo means the evolution / the development, not just evolution in a general sense.

A useful thing to remember is that Esperanto has:

• la = the
• no separate word for a / an

So depending on context, a bare noun can mean a, an, or just a general noun idea.

Why is it estas?

Estas is the present-tense form of esti, meaning to be.

So:

• mi estas = I am
• vi estas = you are
• li estas = he is
• ili estas = they are

Unlike English, the verb does not change depending on the subject. Estas stays estas for everyone in the present tense.

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