Lesson 20 / 24

Travel: tickets, hotels, planes

Book a room, find a platform, and talk about leaving and arriving.

Rezervi is to book. Ĉu estas libera ĉambro? — Is there a free room? Platform is kajo; gate at an airport is pordego or elirejo. The plane leaves at… is La aviadilo foriras je… Arrive is alveni. Delay is malfruo: La trajno malfruas. Passport is pasporto; luggage is pakaĵo. Direction still takes -n: ni flugas Parizon, ni iras al la hotelo.

Platform five

Read the story. Click a word to see what it means.

Ĉe stacidomo Marko aĉetas . kvin.

At the station Marko buys a ticket. The platform is number five.

trajno foriros je sesa. alvenos Berlino je naŭa.

The train will leave at six. It will arrive in Berlin at nine.

Lia granda, .

His luggage is big, but the passport is in the pocket.

jam rezervis hotelon?” “. .”

“Have you already booked a hotel?” “Yes. Close to the centre.”

Read this aloud

  1. Bonvolu unu bileton al Berlino. One ticket to Berlin, please.
  2. La trajno foriras de kajo kvin je la sesa. The train leaves from platform five at six.
  3. Ĉu la hotelo estas proksima al la stacidomo? Is the hotel close to the station?
  4. Jes. Vi alvenos en dudek minutoj. Yes. You will arrive in twenty minutes.

foriri vs iri

iri is to go. foriri is to leave (go away). alveni is to arrive. The prefix for- is “away”; you will meet it again on the affix page.

Words in this lesson

rezervi to book / reserve
bileto ticket
kajo platform
aviadilo airplane
foriri to leave / depart
alveni to arrive
pasporto passport
pakaĵo luggage
numero number
poŝo pocket
proksime nearby
centro centre

Practice

Write the Esperanto sentence. Enter checks your answer.

One ticket to Berlin, please.

bileton takes -n.

The train leaves at six.

foriri + je la + ordinal.

We fly to Paris.

City as direction: -n.

Is there a free room?

Ĉu + estas + adjective + noun.

The plane leaves at nine.

je la naŭa.

I booked a room.

rezervi + -n.

Build the word

Type the Esperanto word.

to leave / depart

for- + iri.

to arrive

al- + veni.

airplane

aviad- + -ilo.

to book

International root + -i.

Complete the sentences

Fill the missing piece.

La trajno foriras ____ la sesa.

je la + clock.

Ni flugas Pariz____.

Direction -n.

Unu bilet____, bonvolu.

Object.

____ estas libera ĉambro?

Yes/no.