Mi volas rezervi la luotan dometon hodiaŭ, por ke ni ne serĉu alian lokon morgaŭ.

I want to reserve the cottage we are going to rent today, so that we do not look for another place tomorrow.

Breakdown of Mi volas rezervi la luotan dometon hodiaŭ, por ke ni ne serĉu alian lokon morgaŭ.

• mi: I
• la: the
• ni: we
• hodiaŭ: today

Questions & Answers about Mi volas rezervi la luotan dometon hodiaŭ, por ke ni ne serĉu alian lokon morgaŭ.

Why is it volas rezervi and not volas rezervas?

After voli, the next verb normally stays in the infinitive: rezervi.

• volas = is conjugated for the subject and tense
• rezervi = to reserve

So Mi volas rezervi is literally I want to reserve.

In Esperanto, you do not add a separate word like English to before the infinitive. The ending -i already means that.

What does dometon mean, and what does -et- do?

The base word is domo = house.

The suffix -et- is a diminutive. It makes the idea smaller or more modest:

• domo = house
• dometo = small house, cottage

Then dometon has an extra -n, which marks it as the direct object in this sentence.

So:

• dometo = cottage
• dometon = cottage, as the object of the verb

What is luotan? Why does it look so complicated?