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Help with "tia ke oni respondu ĝin"

af Zvoc47, 1. apr. 2016

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Sprog: English

Zvoc47 (Vise profilen) 1. apr. 2016 19.44.06

I've been reading the detailed info about suffixes and saw this sentence. How can the undefined pronoun contain an imperative verb? What does that mean? Does it mean that "they-some-people need to respond to it"?

nornen (Vise profilen) 1. apr. 2016 21.01.52

Why shouldn't this be possible?

One mustn't tell lies. = Oni ne mensogu.

dombola (Vise profilen) 1. apr. 2016 23.47.41

Zvoc47: What does that mean?
Tia, ke oni respondu ĝin.
Such that one answer it.
In such a way that one answer it.
In such a manner that one answer it.

yyaann (Vise profilen) 2. apr. 2016 01.32.14

Here is a similar construction that might surprise you as well: "Kion ni faru?" (What should we do?)

The conjugation in -u expresses more than just the imperative.

nornen (Vise profilen) 2. apr. 2016 05.42.51

yyaann:The conjugation in -u expresses more than just the imperative.
The u-form does indeed cover the spectrum of exhortative, cohortative, adhortative, propositive, jussive, optative and imperative.

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