Compound words: the last root is the head

Vocabulary

Words 1001 to 1010

Review session

Word Bubbles review session

Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

Vocabulary

Words 1011 to 1020

Review session

Crossword review session

Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

Vocabulary

Words 1021 to 1030

Review session

Word Bubbles review session

Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

Vocabulary

Words 1031 to 1040

Grammar primer

Compound words: the last root is the head

Vaporo plus ŝipo gives vaporŝipo, a steamship: a ship, because the last root says what the thing is. Read any long word from the right.

Grammar primer

Compound words: the linking -o-, and affixes first

Noktomezo keeps its -o-, tagmezo drops it; lernejo beats lernodomo. When a compound needs the linking vowel, and when an affix should do the job instead.

Vocabulary

Words 1041 to 1050

Review session

Crossword review session

Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

Vocabulary

Words 1051 to 1060

Review session

Word Bubbles review session

Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

Grammar primer

The article la, part two

La vivo, la manojn, but li estas instruisto and plain Esperanto: where la goes that English leaves bare, where it stays out, and the names that carry their own la.

Vocabulary

Words 1061 to 1070

Grammar primer

Esperanto slang: mojosa, -aĉ- and krokodili

Mojosa is cool, hundaĉo is a cur, and krokodili is slipping into your own language at an Esperanto event: the words the community uses on itself.

Grammar primer

Kabei, Esperantujo and fina venko

The translator who became a verb, the land with no map, and a long-running argument: what Esperanto is for.

Vocabulary

Words 1071 to 1080

Common mistake

la angla, la anglan or angle?

A language is an adjective with la, and it takes -n like any object. Or say it as an adverb.

Vocabulary

Words 1081 to 1090

Review session

Crossword review session

Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

Vocabulary

Words 1091 to 1100

Listen first

Listen first: La nova aŭto

Hear this chapter's story before you read it: the text stays hidden until you want it, then answer the questions.

Read a story

Story milestone: top 1100 words

You can read this story using only the words you've learned so far. Every content word sits at or above the rank-1100 ceiling.

Song

Song: Mia penso

Play the recording, follow the words, then answer the questions. Every word is at your level - the page teaches the few that are new.

Community

Ask a question on the lernu.net forum

lernu.net has run a free Esperanto course and forum since 2002. Ask the thing you are still unsure about.

Arcade review

Arcade review

Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.