Translation
to belong
Examples
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That book belongs to me.
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The house belonged to his family for a hundred years.
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Whom does this hat belong to?
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She belongs to our group.
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The future will belong to the young.
is intransitive and always takes . The owner is never a direct object, so and never . That makes it the mirror image of : and say the same thing from the two ends. It covers membership as readily as ownership, which is how you say you belong to a club or a nation. For the sense of a thing being in its proper place, Esperanto prefers . The related o is a belonging or an appurtenance.
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