Breakdown of Post la filmo mia patro ĉiam malŝaltas la televidon kaj la lampon.
Questions & Answers about Post la filmo mia patro ĉiam malŝaltas la televidon kaj la lampon.
Post can mean either after in time or behind in space. In this sentence it is temporal, so it means after.
After a normal preposition like post, Esperanto usually uses the noun in its basic form, so you get post la filmo, not post la filmon. The -n ending is mainly used for direct objects and for some direction expressions, not for an ordinary prepositional phrase like this one.
La means the. Esperanto uses la when the speaker has a specific thing in mind or assumes the listener knows which one is meant. So la filmo suggests a particular movie already known in the situation.
English and Esperanto are similar here, although Esperanto sometimes leaves out la where English would use the. In this sentence, la filmo sounds very natural.
Mia is a possessive word meaning my, and possessives in Esperanto behave like adjectives. Normally, you do not add la before them in a phrase like this.
So the usual form is:
- mia patro = my father
La mia patro is possible only in special contrastive situations, something like my father, not yours. That is not the neutral everyday form.