Questions & Answers about La kontrasto estas terura.
Why does the sentence start with la?
La is the definite article, meaning the. So la kontrasto means the contrast.
Esperanto has only one article: la. It does not have a separate word for a/an. So:
- kontrasto = contrast / a contrast
- la kontrasto = the contrast
Why does kontrasto end in -o?
In Esperanto, all basic nouns end in -o. That is one of the most regular parts of the language.
So:
- kontrasto = a noun, contrast
- terura = an adjective, terrible
This makes it easy to see what role a word has just by looking at its ending.
Is kontrasto an Esperanto word or just a borrowed international word?