Questions & Answers about Ni kritikas la filmon kaj legas la subtitolojn.
What does ni mean?
Ni means we.
Like English we, it can refer to the speaker plus one or more other people. The sentence does not tell you exactly who is included; context does that.
Why do kritikas and legas both end in -as?
The ending -as marks the present tense in Esperanto.
So:
- kritikas = criticize / criticizes / am criticizing / are criticizing / is criticizing
- legas = read / reads / am reading / are reading / is reading
Esperanto uses the same present-tense ending -as for all persons.
Do Esperanto verbs change depending on the subject, like English I read vs he reads?
No. Esperanto verbs do not change for person or number.
So you get:
- mi legas = I read / am reading
- vi legas = you read / are reading
- li legas = he reads / is reading
- ni legas = we read / are reading
The verb form stays legas every time.
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