Translation
to be
Examples
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I am a person.
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She was there.
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Will you be with us?
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That is not the truth.
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He wants to be a good gentleman.
The verb every other language makes irregular is, in Esperanto, exactly as regular as the rest: for the present, for the past, for the future, for the conditional, for the imperative, for the infinitive. One form per tense, the same for every person, so , and all look identical. The one real trap is the accusative: what follows is a complement, not an object, so it never takes -n. Write , never .
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