La renovigo bezonas novan biometrian foton.

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Breakdown of La renovigo bezonas novan biometrian foton.

• nova: new
• bezoni: to need
• foto: the photo

Questions & Answers about La renovigo bezonas novan biometrian foton.

How can I tell what each word is doing just from the endings?

Esperanto endings give you a lot of grammatical information.

In this sentence:

• renovig-o = a noun
• bezon-as = a present-tense verb
• nov-a = an adjective
• biometri-a = an adjective
• foto-n = a noun with the direct-object ending -n

That is one of Esperanto’s most helpful features: word endings make the grammar very visible.

Why does bezonas end in -as?

Because -as is the present-tense verb ending in Esperanto.

The dictionary form is bezoni = to need.
So bezonas means needs or need.

Unlike English, the verb does not change for different persons:

• mi bezonas = I need
• vi bezonas = you need
• li bezonas = he needs
• la renovigo bezonas = the renewal needs

Why does foton end in -n?

The -n marks the direct object.

Here, the thing that is needed is the photo, so foton is the object of bezonas.

You can break the sentence up like this:

• La renovigo = the subject
• bezonas = the verb
• novan biometrian foton = the direct object

So foton has -n because it is what the renewal needs.