![]() The prefix pli- means “more” (think of “plus”), so pligrandigi means “to enlarge”. The suffix -igi means “to make, to cause to be”, so grandigi means “make (something) large”. Granda means “large” in Esperanto (think of “grand” in English). To understand why this is such a big deal, let’s take a look at an example. Hundreds of English prefixes and suffixes can be expressed with just a few dozen unambiguous Esperanto ones. In Esperanto, you just use ne- for all of them. To negate a word in English, we use various prefixes like non-, un-, in-, im-, ir-, il-, dis-, and more, and a non-native speaker has to remember when to use which (saying “nonpossible” or “disnecessary” will not do the trick). There are no irregular past tenses, no irregular plurals, no irregularly used prepositions… Additionally, the pronunciation is easy, and the writing system is completely phonetic.Įsperanto has a completely regular way of deriving new words from the ones you already have. ![]() The good Esperanto is an extremely easy language to learnĮsperanto has a relatively simple grammar, which is also completely regular (there are no exceptions). In this article, I will try to shed some light on the pros and cons of learning Esperanto from an objective point of view. It will teach you how to avoid mistakes with commas, prepositions, irregular verbs, and much more.Įsperanto is the most widely spoken constructed language (unless you count Modern Hebrew as a constructed language). ![]() Tip: See my list of the Most Common Mistakes in English.
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