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Poste mi iras al la haltejo, sed la trafiko estas tiel granda, ke la aŭtobuso malfruas.
Meaning
Afterward I go to the stop, but the traffic is so heavy that the bus is late.
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Breakdown of Poste mi iras al la haltejo, sed la trafiko estas tiel granda, ke la aŭtobuso malfruas.
mi
I
esti
to be
granda
big
la
the
Questions & Answers about Poste mi iras al la haltejo, sed la trafiko estas tiel granda, ke la aŭtobuso malfruas.
What does poste mean, and where can it go in the sentence?
Poste means afterwards, then, or later.
In this sentence, it comes first to show the next step in a sequence: Poste mi iras... = Then I go...
Esperanto word order is fairly flexible, so you could also see:
- Mi poste iras al la haltejo.
But putting poste first is very natural when telling a story or describing actions in order.
Why is it mi iras and not some future form like mi iros?
Iras is the present tense, from iri = to go.
Esperanto often uses the present tense when describing a sequence of events, especially in narration, routines, or step-by-step descriptions. So Poste mi iras al la haltejo can mean something like Then I go to the bus stop in a narrative sense.
If you wanted to emphasize that this happens in the future, you could say:
- Poste mi iros al la haltejo. = Then I will go to the bus stop.
So iras here is not wrong at all; it is just a natural narrative present.
Why is it al la haltejo? What does al do here?