Translation
before; in front of
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Examples
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She is in front of me.
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Before speaking, he looked at me.
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I arrived before you.
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Before that time we did not know the truth.
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Everyone came up before the gentleman.
covers both place and time: is in front of the house, is two days ago. Before a verb it needs , so "before speaking" is . Watch the accusative: a thing sitting in front of something takes the plain form ( ), but movement to that spot takes -n ( ). The opposite is post, and the root also gives (beforehand) and antaŭa (previous).
Where this fits
Word family
Words built on antaŭ with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- antaŭenadverb
forward(s), ahead
antaŭ: towards the front
- antaŭulonoun
predecessor
antaŭ-ul-: a person before
- malantaŭpreposition
behind, at the back of
mal-antaŭ
Used in
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Telling the Time and Dates in Esperanto: je la tria
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 10: antaŭ, bona, tie and 11 more words.