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| Lingua Decaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5580 days ago 186 posts - 319 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, French, Norwegian, Portuguese, Dutch | Message 1 of 6 24 August 2009 at 7:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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How do you say "It looks like it's going to rain again" in Esperanto?
Edited by Lingua on 24 August 2009 at 7:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rapp Senior Member United States Joined 5735 days ago 129 posts - 204 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Spanish | Message 2 of 6 24 August 2009 at 9:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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"Ŝajnas kiel pluvos denove" maybe?
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| awake Senior Member United States Joined 6640 days ago 406 posts - 438 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Spanish | Message 3 of 6 28 August 2009 at 4:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ŝajnas, ke pluvos denove - Literally, "It seems that it will rain again"
Instead of Ŝajnas, you might prefer something like "Eblas" (It is possible) Depending on the meaning you wish to connote. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5571 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 4 of 6 30 August 2009 at 7:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Esperanto is a very flexible language; I can think of many different ways to say it. In
fact, I can do it in two words: "Verŝajne repluvos." Edited by Levi on 30 August 2009 at 7:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6443 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 5 of 6 30 August 2009 at 11:54am | IP Logged | ||
Seconded, and I prefer this to the other forms given. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| wildweathel Newbie United States Joined 5567 days ago 32 posts - 71 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Japanese | Message 6 of 6 08 September 2009 at 1:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Verŝajne, pluvontas denove.
"-ontas" is an alternate future tense similar to English "is about to" or "is going to". It strikes me as a bit more natural, but that might be my Latin coming through. One of the nice things about Esperanto is that there are always options; like Levi said, it's a very flexible language. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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