Translation
that (conjunction)
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Examples
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I know that you will come.
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He said that it is not the truth.
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She thinks that we can do that.
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It is good that you are here.
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I want you to tell the truth.
opens a subordinate clause and, unlike English "that", it can never be dropped: , needs both the comma and the . It is not a relative pronoun, so "the man that came" takes , not . After verbs of wanting, asking or ordering the verb inside the clause takes the -u ending: , , which is how Esperanto renders the English "I want you to come".
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Stories
(8)Grammar articles
(22)Adverbs in Esperanto: -e, and Why estas varme Has No Noun
Esperanto -us and -u: Conditional and Imperative
Esperanto Connectors: tamen, kvankam, eĉ se, do and tial
Esperanto Correlatives in Use: tiu kiu, tio kion and More
Esperantismo and the Interna Ideo: What Esperanto Is For
Esperanto False Friends: Words That Lie to English Speakers
Gender in Esperanto: -in-, ge-, and the Reform That Waits
Homaranismo: Zamenhof's Creed, Kept Apart from Esperanto
Esperanto Impersonal Sentences: oni, pluvas, estas varme
Esperanto Body Parts: La Korpo, Head to Foot
Oomoto and the Bahá'ís: Two Faiths That Took Up Esperanto
Esperanto Punctuation, Spelling and Abbreviations
Esperanto Personal Pronouns: mi, vi, li, ŝi and mia
Esperanto Prepositions: The Full List, With Examples
How to Ask Questions in Esperanto: Ĉu, Tags and Answers
The Esperanto Reflexive: si and sia vs li and lia
Esperanto Reported Speech: li diris, ke li venos
Esperanto Subordinate Clauses: ke, kiu, kiam and Commas
Telling the Time and Dates in Esperanto: je la tria
Tricky Esperanto Prepositions: je, po and Direction -n
Esperanto Verb Tenses and Conjugation: -as, -is, -os
Esperanto Verbs and Prepositions: Which One Each Verb Takes
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 4: ke, kiu, por and 11 more words.