Translation
friend
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Examples
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He is my best friend.
o.
She is my friend.
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I found a new friend.
.
Good friends stay friends.
?
Will you come with your friend?
From this one root: o a female friend, oj friends of both sexes, friendly, in a friendly way, and an enemy, which is - doing in one syllable what most languages need a separate word for. is close to in sound and sense but is its own root, -, borrowed whole from the Romance languages. Note , the accusative on adjective and noun alike.
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Word family
Words built on amiko with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- amikeconoun
friendship
amiko-ec-: the state of being friends
- geamikonoun
friend (of either sex); (plural) friends, male and female
ge-amiko: friends of both sexes
- koramikinonoun
girlfriend
koroamiko-in-: a female friend of the heart
The meaning has moved on from the parts: learn it as a word.
- koramikonoun
boyfriend
koroamiko
- malamikonoun
enemy
mal-amiko
Used in
Stories
(3)Grammar articles
(13)Esperanto Apposition: la urbon Parizon and the Echoed -n
Esperanto Correlatives in Use: tiu kiu, tio kion and More
Gender in Esperanto: -in-, ge-, and the Reform That Waits
Esperanto Grammar on One Page: All 16 Rules
Esperanto Countries and Nationalities: -io, -ujo and -ano
Esperanto Letter Writing: Register and Politeness
Esperanto Punctuation, Spelling and Abbreviations
Spoken Esperanto: What People Actually Say
Esperanto Participles: -anta, -inta, -onta and What They Do
The Esperanto Passive: -ata, -ita, -ota and esti
Esperanto Prepositions: The Full List, With Examples
Esperanto Proverbs: 15 From Zamenhof's Proverbaro
Esperanto Subordinate Clauses: ke, kiu, kiam and Commas
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 6: amiko, patro, iu and 11 more words.