Translation
that (thing)
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Examples
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That is good.
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I do not know that.
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What is that?
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He said that to her.
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After that we went to him.
names a thing or a whole idea without identifying it: "that", as in "that is good". It takes -n when it is the object, giving , but it never takes the plural -j, because it is already an unnamed lump rather than a countable item. The moment a noun follows, switch to : , but . Its question-word partner is , and adding brings it close: is "this".
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(4)Grammar articles
(28)The Esperanto Accusative: What -n Does, and Its Four Jobs
Esperanto Affixes That Are Also Words: ilo, aro, eta, igi
Esperanto Comparisons: pli, plej, ol and kiel
Esperanto Connectors: tamen, kvankam, eĉ se, do and tial
Esperanto Correlatives in Use: tiu kiu, tio kion and More
Esperanto Correlatives Table: All 45 Words on One Grid
Esperanto Demonstratives: Tiu, Tio and ĉi for This
Esperanto False Friends: Words That Lie to English Speakers
Homaranismo: Zamenhof's Creed, Kept Apart from Esperanto
Esperanto -ig- and -iĝ-: Making and Becoming
Esperanto Impersonal Sentences: oni, pluvas, estas varme
Esperanto Interjections: Ho, Nu, Ve and Sound Words
Esperanto Question Words: Kiu, Kio, Kie and the Ki- Table
Esperanto Food and Cooking Words: Kuirarto kaj Manĝo
Esperanto Body Parts: La Korpo, Head to Foot
Esperanto Grammar on One Page: All 16 Rules
Esperanto Nouns and Adjectives: -o, -a and Agreement
Esperanto Punctuation, Spelling and Abbreviations
Spoken Esperanto: What People Actually Say
Esperanto Particles: ĉi tiu, ju...des, ajn and mem
Poetic Esperanto: Elision, Stress and What Verse Can Bend
Esperanto Prepositions: The Full List, With Examples
How to Ask Questions in Esperanto: Ĉu, Tags and Answers
Scientific Esperanto: The Register That Almost Won
Esperanto Subordinate Clauses: ke, kiu, kiam and Commas
Esperanto Transitivity: Which Verbs Take an Object
Tricky Esperanto Prepositions: je, po and Direction -n
Esperanto Verbs and Prepositions: Which One Each Verb Takes
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 6: tio, ŝi, sia and 11 more words.