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Learning the Esperanto Questions is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you practice the subject, the closer you get to mastering the Esperanto language. But first we need to know what the role of Questions is in the structure of the grammar in Esperanto.
Esperanto questions may be either a linguistic expression used to make a request for information, or else the request itself made by such an expression. Usually it starts with why, how, where, when ...
In Esperanto there is generally one way of asking a question to get a yes or no answer, and it is as follows:
The word “ĉu” is placed in front of a declarative statement to make it interrogative:
Vi iros hejmen (You will be going home.)
Ĉu vi iros hejmen? (Will you be going home?)
Estas vere. (It’s true.)
Ĉu estas vere? (Is it true?)
(Compare with the French “Est-ce que…”)
Here are some examples:
| English Questions | Esperanto Questions |
|---|---|
| Questions | Demandoj |
| how? | kiel? |
| what? | kio(j)(n)? |
| who? | kiu(j)(n)? |
| why? | kial? |
| where? | kie? |
As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Questions in Esperanto has a logical pattern. Locate the Questions above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Esperanto.
Below is a list of the Questions and interrogative expressions in Esperanto placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Esperanto vocabulary.
| English Questions | Esperanto Questions |
|---|---|
| where is he? | kie li estas? |
| what is this? | kio estas ĉi tio? |
| why are you sad? | kial vi estas malgaja? |
| how do you want to pay? | kiel vi deziras ludi? |
| can I come? | mi povas kuniri? |
| is he sleeping? | li dormas? |
| do you know me? | ĉu vi konas min? |
| do you have my book? | ĉu vi havas mian libron? |
| how big is it? | kiel granda ĝi estas? |
| can I help you? | ĉu mi povas helpi vin? |
| can you help me? | ĉu vi povas helpi min? |
| do you speak English? | ĉu vi parolas la anglan? |
| how far is this? | kiel fora estas ĉi tio? |
| what time is it? | kioma horo estas? |
| how much is this? | kiom kostas ĉi tio? |
| what is your name? | kio estas via nomo? |
| where do you live? | kie vi loĝas? |
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