 What's up guys EvilD here and today I'm going to be playing a little bit of Perfect Dark just because I'm always speaking about this game it's a game from my childhood it's actually an N64 game and I figured that what I'm going to start doing now on with series rather than teaching Esperanto in a linear fashion I'm actually going to be teaching just aspects of the language so say particular verbs or particular sentence constructions or whatever now in this particular lesson I'm going to be teaching just in the case related to time now it's not going to be a very long lesson it probably only like five maybe eight minutes but it should help you a little bit with understanding time now I am playing with a keyboard at the moment so I will probably suck massively now the first thing you have to understand is when you're speaking about time most beginners to Esperanto they'd say for instance I stand for two hours they use the word because it can mean for while or during okay so I stand for two hours they would say but what you can what you need to understand is with the accusative case yes it's used for the object of a transitive verb but it's also used for measurements and as we know time is a measurement so what you can then say is me start us do hodling okay so I stand for two hours now you notice that hodling has become hodling what we've done there is we've dropped the doom and we've simply said that well do hodling is a measurement so we can put that in the accusative case so me start us doom do hodling and me start us do hodling actually means the exact same thing in Esperanto so based on that let's okay I just oh I've just opened the door showed her my gun and then closed the door I need to punch her and just take her card for memory yes and I remember that I don't have to punch her but I always did as a child for some reason so I'll continue doing that and I'll punch that window because that's something else I did okay so how would you say then using what I just taught you I traveled for two hours traveled past tense here um and don't use doom me that to this do hodling me that to this do hodling and how would you say I stood for two hours again it's past tense me start this do hodling me start this do hodling oh my god this is really hard to aim with a keyboard but it's awesome at the same time okay and how would you say um I will run for two hours okay now I'm hoping you've basically got that down pat basically what you're doing is you're just replacing doom for the accusative case when reflecting or when talking about time however there is other points where you will use it and it's not so intrinsically obvious now another one of those is for instance you'll hear a lot of s minus when they're in a conversation they'll say uno momentum and it's basically just a way of saying afk okay but what that there you'll notice that momentum is actually in the accusative case from and okay open this oh hello if you're shooting me um and why that is is because it's actually a shortened sentence plus it's talking about a duration of time so the duration of a time is the momentum so you're saying uno momentum so one moment so it's in the accusative case but it's also a shortened phrase for atendo uno momentum okay now the reason as you know in Esperanto you can drop parts of sentences that aren't needed and that's obviously one of those points where it's understood so you don't need to mention the atendo part now just so you know atendo just means it's a command or a um a request to wait okay so atendo uno momentum is another point where you'll see um the accusative case being used to reflect time now there is another point now this one's even more hard of what english speakers to understand and basically what i say is don't try to understand it too much except just remember that the accusative case can be used for measurement and time is a measurement so if you're talking about a measurement of time you use an accusative but here's a point where it will get a little bit like hard to understand you'll see and this it's almost always exactly like this whenever you use poste or antaue after a measurement of time the measurement time is always in the accusative case okay so for instance you'd say um uno tagon antaue mi fardis tion so one day ago i did this okay come here elevator and it will always be in the accusative case so if you use antaue or poste directly after a measurement of time just remember to put that time in the accusative case so you could say for instance um uh do tagging poste mi fardis tion so two days later um i will do that okay or you could say um uno tagon antaue mi mangis tion so one day ago i ate this so remember the tagon or whatever you are using for measurement has to be in the accusative case um it's just easier to remember that if it's going to go before antaue or poste and i mean directly before and it's a measurement of time then just use it um in the accusative case now as you get better at these you'll start to just realize oh yeah that's a measurement of time so you'll slap that in the accusative case but yeah it's usually anytime you can use doom you can use the accusative regarding time okay now take that shot you in the arm my friend how awesome is this game for like its age man i was playing this when i was a kid like it's still good now i i love this game i love it anyway so yeah that's the main moments where you would use the accusative of time so we'll just practice a tiny little bit before we reach the end of this so how would you say wait one moment uno momento or you could say attendu uno momento but no one does that just uno momento and how would you say um i walked uh for three days walked his past tense awesome and whoop how would you say um i am standing for three hours or i know it sounds weird in english but to say i'm standing for three hours okay so i've reached the end of this random little lesson if you've liked it give it a like share it 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