{"id":115,"date":"2010-01-05T16:01:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T20:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/?p=115"},"modified":"2010-01-05T16:01:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T20:01:19","slug":"denominations-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/denominations-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Denominations of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Esperanto has always enjoyed a remarkably intuitive number system. We use root words for the cardinal numbers 0-9, and then there are various prefixes to denote larger and larger multiples. So, where languages like Spanish have words like cuarenta<\/em> for 40 [N.B. – Thank you for catching me in yet another moment of stupidity, Toraku!], Esperanto uses kvardek<\/strong>. At a glance, you can tell it means “four tens,” or 40. (I don’t mean to disparage the Spanish language by citing it here…I simply want to make a comparison for Esperanto’s benefit, and I remember being bothered by numbers in my pre-university days!)<\/p>\n

Since we’ve stumbled into a new year, and a new decade, I figured it would help to provide a list of some Esperanto time denominations. They work much like the Esperanto number system – find the root word you need (probably jaro<\/strong>, meaning “year”), and append the requisite number. At this rate, you can be a historian in no time at all!<\/p>\n

Day – tago<\/strong>
\nWeek – semajno
\n<\/strong>Month – monato
\n<\/strong>Year – jaro
\n<\/strong>Decade – jardeko<\/strong> \/ dekjaro<\/strong> (ten-year)
\nCentury – jarcento<\/strong> \/ centjaro<\/strong> (hundred-year)
\nMillennium – jarmilo<\/strong> \/ miljaro<\/strong> (thousand-year)
\nEra – erao
\n<\/strong>Epoch – epoko
\n<\/strong>Generation – generacio <\/strong>(not really a time denomination, but appropriate for a discussion about years!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Esperanto has always enjoyed a remarkably intuitive number system. We use root words for the cardinal numbers 0-9, and then there are various prefixes to denote larger and larger multiples. So, where languages like Spanish have words like cuarenta for 40 [N.B. – Thank you for catching me in yet another moment of stupidity, Toraku!]…<\/p>\n

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