Breakdown of La veron konfesinta knabino ne plu hontas.
Questions & Answers about La veron konfesinta knabino ne plu hontas.
The sentence has two main parts:
- La veron konfesinta knabino = the subject
- ne plu hontas = the predicate
So the whole subject is not just knabino. The participial phrase veron konfesinta is attached to knabino and tells you which girl we mean.
Konfesinta is a participle used like an adjective.
It comes from:
- konfesi = to confess
- -int- = active past participle
- -a = adjective ending
So konfesinta means something like having confessed or who confessed.
Because it is adjective-like, it modifies knabino.
It ends in -a because it is functioning as an adjective that describes knabino.
In Esperanto, participles can behave like adjectives, nouns, or adverbs:
- konfesinta = adjectival
- konfesinto = a confessor / one who confessed
- konfesinte = having confessed
Here we need the adjectival form because it describes the girl.