Meaning of tableword | Babel Free

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Any of the basic correlatives in Esperanto, often displayed in a table.

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“And how many little words and particles that fit nowhere must we learn⟳? Esperanto's inventor Zamenhof had a stroke of genius on that: the so-called table words.”

“There is a table of words for what/when/where / that/then/there etc, but that's about it... ¶ If you are learning just by reading the text, a useful trick⟳ to know⟳ is that words and word-roots can be stuck together to make⟳ bigger words. (But the above-mentioned tablewords are *not* made that way.)”

“Doubters may wish⟳ to investigate⟳ the 600+ page _Plena analiza gramatiko de Esperanto_ by Kalocsay & Waringhien. The sixteen "rules" are of the second type⟳, and even for this they are not complete⟳ (they do not address the table-words, for instance).”

“While I like⟳ the table words (tabelvortoj), there is a fundamental flaw in it: The question⟳ words are also overloaded for use⟳ as relative pronouns. This is clearly a highly Eurocentric design⟳.”

“The grammar of Esperanto provides good opportunities to create⟳ pithy and catchy PUs, especially proverbs. Zamenhof, for example, made extensive use⟳ of a set⟳ of Esperanto correlatives, the so-called table-words. This is a closed subsystem that allows the completely regular formation of 45 pronouns and adverbs through cross-reference in a table [15].”

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