Translation
before; in front of
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).
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