Name: Esperanto lesson 2: Nouns, adjectives, plurals, and articles
Uploaded: 2015-05-28T12:03:59.000Z
Duration: 10 min 1 s
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In this lesson I'm going to teach you about

Before teaching you each of these in Esperanto

I'm going to explain how they're used in English

Then I'll teach you how it's used in Esperanto

And then give you a few Esperanto examples

It's a word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea

George Washington is a noun because he's a person

The word "beach" is a noun because it's a place

The word "ham" is a noun because it's a thing

In this case, the word "sandwich" is the noun

Is just describing what kind of sandwich it is

Because if you're talking about a ham sandwich,

In English, you can't tell if a word is a noun

This makes it really easy to recognize in Esperanto

In Esperanto this uses the root word "arb-"

In Esperanto this uses the root word "plaĝ-"

The next part is about adjectives.  What is an adjective?

An adjective is any kind of describing word

And adjectives always describe and modify nouns

My first example of an adjective is the word "shiny"

It's an adjective because describes something shiny

Which word is a noun?  Which word is an adjective?

because the thing we're talking about is a fish

and "funny" is describing what kind of fish it is

In English you can't tell if a word is an adjective

In Esperanto, all adjectives have the ending  -a

This makes it easy to recognize and easy to remember

because it can describe something that's beautiful

In Esperanto we use the root word "grand-"

In Esperanto we can also convert nouns into adjectives

Another example of this is the root word "sal-"

With this root you can make "salo" (salt)

how you use adjectives in combination with nouns

the adjective comes before the noun it's describing

adjectives can be before or after the noun they modify

Both of these placements of  the adjective

You can say "dolĉa pomo" or "pomo dolĉa"

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