Fine la kelnerino alportis la menuon, kaj ni mendis supon.

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Breakdown of Fine la kelnerino alportis la menuon, kaj ni mendis supon.

• kaj: and
• alporti: to bring
• supo: the soup

Questions & Answers about Fine la kelnerino alportis la menuon, kaj ni mendis supon.

What does Fine mean at the start of the sentence?

Here Fine means finally, at last, or in the end. It is an adverb, and it tells you that this happened after some delay or after other events.

So:

• Fine la kelnerino alportis la menuon = Finally the waitress brought the menu

It does not mean fine in the English sense of good here.

Why is it la kelnerino and not just kelnerino?

La is the Esperanto definite article, meaning the.

So:

• kelnerino = waitress
• la kelnerino = the waitress

Esperanto has only one article, la, and it does not change for gender, number, or case.

What does the ending -ino in kelnerino mean?

The suffix -ino marks a female person or animal.

So:

• kelnero = waiter / server
• kelnerino = waitress

This is a very common Esperanto word-building pattern. Learning suffixes like -ino helps a lot, because Esperanto builds many words from roots plus endings.