La inspektoro rigardas la skizon.

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Breakdown of La inspektoro rigardas la skizon.

• rigardi: to look at
• skizo: the sketch
• inspektoro: the inspector

Questions & Answers about La inspektoro rigardas la skizon.

Why does skizon end in -n?

The -n is the accusative ending. In Esperanto, this marks the direct object of the verb — the thing being looked at.

• La inspektoro = the inspector
• rigardas = looks / is looking
• la skizon = the sketch

So skizon gets -n because it is the thing the inspector is looking at.

The basic noun is skizo. When it becomes a direct object, it becomes skizon.

Why doesn’t inspektoro also have -n?

Because la inspektoro is the subject, not the direct object.

In Esperanto:

• the subject usually has no special ending
• the direct object takes -n

So in this sentence:

• La inspektoro = the one doing the action
• la skizon = the thing receiving the action

That is why only skizon has -n.

What does the ending -as in rigardas mean?