Estas neĝanta

William Overington

This song was written many years ago when I was learning about some of the more advanced aspects of Esperanto verbs, yet the lyrics were not published in this webspace until early September 2015.

The reason for this is because I am not totally sure that I have got the grammar correct.

This is because the verb, neĝi, that means "to snow" does not use the word for it with the verb about the weather as would English with "It is snowing".

So it is possible that it should be Estas neĝante rather than Estas neĝanta. I have thus far not been able to find out the answer.

Yet not to publish the lyrics that I have written would mean that the song would not reach a potentially wide audience, and maybe someone in that audience would know the correct answer.

The song has three verses with words and one verse that could either be sung, or regarded as an instrumental verse if musical accompaniment is available, or as singing and musical accompaniment together if music is available, the words of that verse not having any meaning as such.

To what does the ĝi in the third line of three of the verses refer? The Esperanto word ĝi means it, in the sense of referring to an object. I sometimes wonder if the ĝi could be imagined as an oak tree in the landscape or maybe as a seed that needs freezing in order to germinate.

If the setting were a television studio or a video were being made, the second and third verses could have large snowflakes slowly and gently falling.

Readers not familiar with the Esperanto language may like to know that Esperanto letter i is pronounced as an English speaker pronounces the "ee" in the English word seed; and that the Esperanto letter ĝ is pronounced as the g in the English word gemstone; and that the Esperanto letter ŝ is pronounced as the sh in the English word shop and that the Esperanto word kaj, which means and, is pronounced as an English speaker pronounces the "kay" in the English word kayak.

Please sing slowly and happily.

Estas neĝonta por mi kaj por vi
Estas neĝonta por li kaj por ŝi
Estas neĝonta por ili kaj por ĝi
Estas neĝonta por ni

Estas neĝanta por mi kaj por vi
Estas neĝanta por li kaj por ŝi
Estas neĝanta por ili kaj por ĝi
Estas neĝanta por ni

La-la la-la-la la la la la li
La-la la-la-la la la la la li
La-la la-la-la la la-la la la li
La-la la-la-la la li

Estas neĝinta por mi kaj por vi
Estas neĝinta por li kaj por ŝi
Estas neĝinta por ili kaj por ĝi
Estas neĝinta por ni