Mi restas hejme pro la pluvo.

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Breakdown of Mi restas hejme pro la pluvo.

• la: the
• resti: to stay
• pluvo: the rain

Questions & Answers about Mi restas hejme pro la pluvo.

Why is it restas and not resti?

Restas is the present-tense form of the verb resti, meaning to stay, to remain, or sometimes to keep staying.

• resti = the basic dictionary form, to stay
• restas = stays / am staying / remain

So:

• Mi resti hejme = incorrect in a normal statement
• Mi restas hejme = I stay home / I am staying home

Esperanto uses -as for the present tense.

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What exactly does restas mean here?

Here restas means stay rather than remain in the English sense of be left over.

So Mi restas hejme means:

• I am staying home
• I stay at home

Depending on context, resti can also mean remain, but in this sentence the natural idea is staying at home.

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Why is it hejme and not hejmo?