Questions & Answers about Mi eĉ ne memoras vian telefonnumeron.
What does eĉ ne mean here, and why are the two words together?
Eĉ ne means not even.
- eĉ = even
- ne = not
Putting them together gives emphasis: I do not even remember your phone number.
In Esperanto, eĉ ne is a very common combination. It works much like English not even.
Why is it memoras and not memoris?
Memoras has the ending -as, which marks the present tense.
So mi memoras means I remember.
That may feel a little different from English, because English sometimes uses I don't remember to talk about a present state, even if the thing remembered is from the past. Esperanto does the same here: Mi ne memoras = I don't remember.
If you wanted I didn't remember, you would use memoris instead:
- Mi ne memoris = I didn't remember
Why do both vian and telefonnumeron end in -n?