Lesson 14
Adjectives & word order
Agreement, position, and the flexible Esperanto sentence.
Listen & repeat
Adjective agreement
Adjectives end in -a and agree with nouns in number and case: granda urbo, grandaj urboj, grandan urbon. They usually come before the noun, but may follow for emphasis: urbo granda.
Flexible word order
Subject–verb–object is common, but -n marks the object clearly, so Mi legas libron = Libron mi legas. Adverbs often come first for topic: Hodiaŭ mi laboras.
Vocabulary
Exercises
Exercise 1
La ___ (nova, plural) gazetoj.
Exercise 2
a big city
Exercise 3
Adjective ending?
- -a
- -o
- -e
Exercise 4
Mi legas ___ (nova, acc.) gazeton.
Exercise 5
Describe Zandoria in three adjective + noun pairs.
Try it yourself first — no auto marking for written answers.