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La venontan monaton mia onklino sendos poŝtkartojn al ĉiuj geavoj, kiuj restos hejme.
Meaning
Next month my aunt will send postcards to all the grandparents, who will stay at home.
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Breakdown of La venontan monaton mia onklino sendos poŝtkartojn al ĉiuj geavoj, kiuj restos hejme.
la
the
al
to
resti
to stay
kiu
who
Questions & Answers about La venontan monaton mia onklino sendos poŝtkartojn al ĉiuj geavoj, kiuj restos hejme.
Why does La venontan monaton have an -n ending? It doesn’t seem to be the direct object.
Here -n is being used for time, not for a direct object.
Esperanto often uses the accusative ending -n for expressions of time, measure, or direction. So:
- La venontan monaton = next month
- literally something like the coming month used as a time expression
This is often called the accusative of time. It answers when?
So in this sentence:
- La venontan monaton mia onklino sendos...
- = Next month my aunt will send...
What exactly does venontan mean?
Venontan comes from veni = to come.
More specifically:
- veni = to come
- venonta = coming / about to come / upcoming
- venontan = accusative singular form of venonta
So la venontan monaton means the coming month, which in natural English is usually next month.
Why is there la in La venontan monaton?