Breakdown of Aĉetanto kontrolas la broĉon kaj antikvaĵon.
Questions & Answers about Aĉetanto kontrolas la broĉon kaj antikvaĵon.
In Esperanto, -as marks the present tense. So kontrolas means checks / is checking.
A few useful comparisons:
- kontrolas = checks
- kontrolis = checked
- kontrolos = will check
- kontrolu = check! (command)
- kontroli = to check
So in this sentence, kontrolas tells you the action is happening in the present.
The -n ending marks the direct object in Esperanto.
Here, the buyer is doing the checking, and the things being checked are:
- la broĉon
- antikvaĵon
So both nouns take -n because they are the objects of kontrolas.
This is one of the most important Esperanto endings:
- aĉetanto = the subject, the one doing the action
- broĉon = object
- antikvaĵon = object
Because the two objects are joined by kaj, each one is still understood as an object, so each gets -n.