Words to Practice - Garrett's Domain

Tablewords

	ki- question	ti- indication	i- indefinite	ĉi- universal	neni- negative
-a kind	kia – what kind (of)	tia – that kind (of)	ia – some kind (of)	ĉia – every kind (of)	nenia – no kind (of)
-e place	kie – where	tie – there	ie – somewhere	ĉie – everywhere	nenie – nowhere
-o thing, abstract – not out of a set	kio – what	tio – that	io – something	ĉio – everything	nenio – nothing
-u individual thing or person, i.e. one out of a set “partitive”	kiu – who, which, what one (sometimes translated as “what”)	tiu – that person, that one, that specific	iu – someone	ĉiu – everyone, every, each	neniu – no one, none of them
-al reason	kial – why	tial – for that reason	ial – for some reason	ĉial – for every reason	nenial – for no reason
-am time	kiam – when	tiam – then	iam – some time, ever	ĉiam – always, every time	neniam – never, no time
-el manner	kiel – how, what way	tiel – in that way, like that	iel – in some way, somehow	ĉiel – in every way	neniel – in no way
-es possession	kies – whose	ties – that one’s (keep in mind ilia is their/theirs)	ies – someone’s	ĉies – everyone’s	nenies – no one’s
-om amount	kiom – how much, what amount	tiom – that much, that amount	iom – some amount, to some extent	ĉiom – all of it, the whole amount	neniom – none of it, no amount

Use the word (not prefix) ĉi with ti- words to refer to a nearer thing, i.e. turn “that” into “this”.
tiel is often preferred over tiom, even for intensity.
kelk- (usually as kelkaj) is commonly used to mean “some” for quantifiable nouns, and iom da for unquantifiable e.g. “some water” = iom da akvo
iom might not refer to a large amount, even though it has the vague meaning of “some”.
tiel … kiel is the idiom “as … as”, as in, “as (adj) as (noun)”. I can’t directly translate it because it doesn’t make sense in English that way.