Indirect Questions
Any interrogative clause as explained above can be used as-is as an indirect question, as the object of a verb like scii, to know.
- Mi ne scias, ĉu la pomo estas sur la tablo. - I don't know whether the apple is on the table.
- Li scias, kion vi faras. - He knows what you are doing.
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