Translation
when
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.
, multon.
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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