Vi havas domon.

You have a house.

Breakdown of Vi havas domon.

• vi: you
• havi: to have
• domo: the house

Questions & Answers about Vi havas domon.

Why does domon end with “-n”?

In Esperanto, the -n ending marks the accusative case, which indicates the direct object. Since the house (domon) is the thing being had, it takes the accusative ending.

Why is it havas instead of havi or something else?

Verbs in Esperanto end in -as in the present tense for all subjects. Havas is the present-tense form of the verb havi.

Does vi indicate formal or informal address?

Esperanto uses vi for both formal and informal situations. It covers what English splits into “you” and older forms like “thou”—there’s no separate polite form.

Is it ever necessary to use articles like “la” here?

Esperanto does have a definite article (la), but there is no indefinite article ("a/an"). Here, since you’re simply saying “You have a house,” you don’t need la. If you wanted to specify the house, you would say Vi havas la domon.