Mem: right after the word it stresses

mem: right after its word

Mem stresses the word just before it:

• Mi mem faris tion. - I did it myself (nobody else did).
• La reĝo mem venis. - The king himself came.
• La libro mem estas bona. - The book itself is good.

Keep it next to its word. Mi faris tion mem is common in speech and usually understood the same way, but after tion the mem can also read as that very thing; Mi mem faris tion leaves no doubt.

Mem is not the reflexive. English -self does both jobs; Esperanto uses si for the reflexive:

For each other, say unu la alian; alia takes the -n as the object:

• Ili amas unu la alian. - They love each other.

The reflexive article has si and each other in full.

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