Breakdown of La aero ĉe la rivero kutime estas pura, sed hodiaŭ densa nebulo estis super la ponto.
Questions & Answers about La aero ĉe la rivero kutime estas pura, sed hodiaŭ densa nebulo estis super la ponto.
Esperanto has no indefinite article. So where English says a dense fog, Esperanto simply says densa nebulo.
- nebulo = fog
- densa nebulo = a dense fog / dense fog
By contrast, Esperanto does have a definite article: la = the.
So:
- la ponto = the bridge
- densa nebulo = a dense fog / dense fog
La is the Esperanto definite article, meaning the.
It is used when the speaker means something specific or identifiable from the context:
- la aero = the air
- la rivero = the river
- la ponto = the bridge
In a sentence like this, those things are treated as known parts of the scene. Esperanto uses la much like English the, though exact usage can sometimes differ a little by context.
Also, la never changes:
- not for gender
- not for number
- not for case
So it is always just la.