Translation
high, tall
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Examples
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The mountain is very high.
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He is taller than me.
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She spoke in a high voice.
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A high wall stood before us.
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The bird flew high above the forest.
One word for both tall and high, with covering low and short. The root gives o (height), i (to raise) and i (to rise). The trap is sound: is high-pitched, not loud. Loud is , and telling someone to is asking them to speak up, whereas asks them to squeak. English "raise your voice" hides the same ambiguity, which is presumably why the mistake is so persistent.
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Word family
Words built on alta with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- alteconoun
height
alta-ec-: the quality of being high
- malaltaadjective
low; short (in height)
mal-alta
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 4: alta, kies, animo and 7 more words.