Stop Sharing in Esperanto!

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Alex Vaughn Miller helps you avoid the mistake of sharing direct objects between clauses. While that’s perfectly fine in English, in Esperanto that is a no-no.

In English, “I enjoyed the pizza he made” sounds great.
In Esperanto, you have to add the word “which” (kiun) in there to make the sentence “Mi ĝuis la picon, kiun li faris.”

We can, however, trim out certain correlative words like tiu, tio, and tie, when they are paired with a matching kiu, kio, or kie.
“Mi ĝuis, kion li faris” is totally fine.

You cannot, however, trim out the ti-word when the pair doesn’t match.
Mi ŝatas (tiun), kiun vi rekomendis” can be shortened.
“Plaĉas al mi tiu, kiun vi rekomendis” cannot.

For more specifics on how to trim out the correlatives, check out this page from PMEG 2020. Fair warning, it’s written entirely in Esperanto and does get pretty technical.
https://bertilow.com/pmeg/gramatiko/subfrazoj/rilataj/ti-forlaso.html

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