Translation
when
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Examples
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When will you come?
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I do not know when he will come.
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When I saw her, she was talking to a gentleman.
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When one has time, one can get a lot done.
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I will come when you want.
Kiam is the correlative of time, doing duty as both the question word "when" and the conjunction. Its ti- partner is tiam, so the pair behaves exactly like kiu and tiu, or kiel and tiel. One thing English speakers trip on: Esperanto keeps a real future tense inside the when-clause, so mi venos, kiam vi volos carries -os twice.
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Esperanto Particles: 膲i tiu, ju...des, ajn and mem
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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
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 7: kiam, el, unu and 8 more words.