Esperanto Example Sentences: 48 Real Sentences, Graded by Frequency

TL;DR

48 real Esperanto example sentences with English translations, taken from our 1,000-word course and graded by vocabulary: sentences built from your first fifty words, then the top 100, the top 500, and the full core 1,000. Every Esperanto word links to its own dictionary page with audio. Before the sentences, one short section teaches you to read any Esperanto sentence cold: the endings announce everything, with -o marking a noun, -a an adjective, -e an adverb, -as a present-tense verb and -n the object. After them, a public-domain sample text: the first stanza of Zamenhof's La Espero.

1. What does an Esperanto sentence look like?
Like this: Mi volas vidi la mondon, meaning I want to see the world. Esperanto sentences are built from invariable roots plus endings that declare each word's...

2. Is Esperanto word order free?
Freer than English, not lawless. Because the -n ending marks the object wherever it stands, La knabo vidas la hundon and La hundon vidas la knabo both mean the...

3. Where can I find Esperanto text samples?
The classic public-domain sample is the first stanza of Zamenhof's poem La Espero, quoted with translation on this page. For longer reading, Zamenhof's...

4. How many Esperanto sentences do I need to learn?
None by heart, which is the point of a regular language. Instead of memorising sentences, you learn the small set of endings that generate them: once -as, -is...