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In a message dated 12/26/2005 1:37:25 PM Central Standard Time, sts@hidden.email writes:
We shall also not forget the Esperanto ending "-au" in "baldaux",
"morgaux", "hieraux", which always strictly refers to the speaker. It
resembles the Latejami ending "u" in this sence.
Again, "-aux" is not an ending; it's part of the root, and a 'pseudo-suffix' at most. It's special only because just a handful of words, mostly adverbs, end in it. Words ending with this vowel cluster need no other part-of-speech ending, but such an ending may be added to change the part of speech; e.g. "adiaux" - 'goodbye', "adiauxi" - 'to say goodbye, to take one's leave, etc.'.
In other words, Esperanto has a small number of words with default parts of speech.
It'd be nice if teachers and textbooks of Esperanto would acknowledge this little tidbit.
stevo
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