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Se la boato ne venos, ni trovos ian alian solvon kaj atendos la ŝipon ĉe la haveno.
Meaning
If the boat does not come, we will find some other solution and wait for the ship at the harbor.
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Breakdown of Se la boato ne venos, ni trovos ian alian solvon kaj atendos la ŝipon ĉe la haveno.
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kaj
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Questions & Answers about Se la boato ne venos, ni trovos ian alian solvon kaj atendos la ŝipon ĉe la haveno.
Why does Esperanto use venos, trovos, and atendos here?
They are all in the future tense, marked by -os.
- venos = will come
- trovos = will find
- atendos = will wait
So the sentence describes a possible future situation:
- Se la boato ne venos = If the boat does not come
- ni trovos... kaj atendos... = we will find... and wait...
Esperanto uses the same future ending for all verbs, with no change for person:
- mi venos = I will come
- vi venos = you will come
- li/ŝi venos = he/she will come
- ni venos = we will come
Why is it Se la boato ne venos and not something like Se la boato ne venus?
Because this is a real or likely condition, not a hypothetical or contrary-to-fact one.
In Esperanto:
- Se ... venos = If ... comes / will come
- Se ... venus = If ... were to come / if ... would come
The sentence is talking about an actual future possibility:
- If the boat doesn’t come, we’ll do something else.
So venos is the normal choice.
Why is there no word for then in the sentence?