"Let me tell you my family name", said Tom Swift

[pne]

Amy seems to have trouble distinguishing between adjectives and adverbs in English, inconsistently sometimes adding -ly to adjectives or leaving it off adverbs. It surely doesn't help that predicate adjectives and adverbs have the same form in the German (namely, the bare stem).

For example, she might say, "We have to be carefully" or "I called you very loud".

Comments

[allegrox.livejournal.com]

In some languages (mainly Slavic that I know of, and Esperanto), predicate adjectives are grouped with the verb since they aren't attached to a noun (directly anyway), and so are treated as adverbs.

In Esperanto, "We have to be careful." = "Ni devas esti singarde." (where the -e is what makes it an adverb).

On that note, I just realized that the compound "singard-" (in base form) makes no sense. It breaks down to "without guard" but actually means caution/careful.

singard-

[pne.livejournal.com]

On that note, I just realized that the compound "singard-" (in base form) makes no sense. It breaks down to "without guard" but actually means caution/careful.

I think you're getting your Esperanto mixed up with your Latin (sine "without").

Now, if you're just looking at Esperanto roots I suppose it's possible that the first element is sino "lap; bosom", but I assume it's actually sin, acc. of si "reflexive pronoun", i.e. from gardi sin.

Re: singard-

[allegrox.livejournal.com]

Aha! You're right, I was thinking of sen.

[pne.livejournal.com]

BTW, what is "without" in Esperanto? I'm drawing a blank right now.

Malkun?

[elgrande.livejournal.com]

"sen"

[pne.livejournal.com]

Ah! Right. Thanks for reminding me!

[elgrande.livejournal.com]

It would actually be "Ni devas esti singardaj", i.e. with an adjective form. You may be confusing this with sentences without a subject, where the word does take the adverb form rather than the adjective form, e.g. "It's hot" is "Estas varme".

[allegrox.livejournal.com]

Foiled again. You are correct.