Ch 30 · Lesson 16Esperanto · Chapter 30 · Lesson 16 · Grammar primer

Kuiri, baki, friti, rosti: the cooking verbs, and boligi

needs heat, is in an oven, in hot oil, with neither fat nor water. The water by itself; you it. And is ironing.

The short version

The water ; you it

I am boiling the water for the tea.

Why?

takes no object: it is what a liquid does by itself, so . To boil something yourself, add the causative -ig-: . Most cooking verbs already take an object ( , ); , among these, does not.

The cooking verbs

English cook covers anything from boiling an egg to making a salad. The Esperanto verbs are narrower, and draws each line:

to boil (a liquid, by itself)
to fry
to bake
to roast, to grill

Verb	English	ReVo's line
	to cook	with great heat, to make it edible
	to bake	by heat in an oven or in ashes
	to fry	in very hot oil or fat
	to roast	great heat, with neither fat nor water
	to boil	what a liquid does: no object
	to dip	into water or another liquid
	to peel	+ + `--`: un-skin it
	to mix
	to cut	with a blade
	to taste	to try the flavour

Heat is in the definition of , so it covers boiling and frying but not a salad. For a dish with no heat, the verb is :

. - She cooked soup.
. - I made a salad.

Boli or boligi

-ig- (to make it happen)What do the colours mean?

is intransitive: the liquid does it, and it takes no object. To boil something yourself, add the causative --:

. - The water is boiling.
. - I am boiling the water.
. - Make a fire and boil the water. (a example)

This is the ordinary -- and -- machinery. Most cooking verbs already take an object ( , ); , among these, does not.

Three that are not cooking

These look as if they belong in the kitchen, and do not:

Verb	Means	Looks like cooking
	to iron clothes	a very hot tool
	to shear, clip	it cuts; food is
	to milk a cow	it ends in the kitchen

. - She is ironing the shirt.
. - He is shearing the sheep.

kaproviron, to milk a billy goat, is ReVo's idiom for trying the impossible.

Mistakes English speakers make

Wrong	Right	Why
`.`	`.`	takes no object
		is for wool and hair
(ice cream)		is frozen water
(the meat)	`o`	the food takes `--`

Going further: The pantry and the rest of the guide, when you want them. This lesson does not need them.

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