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Translation

tree

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Examples

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In front of the house stands a tall tree.

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The birds sang in the trees.

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He sat under a big tree and read.

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The wind shook the trees.

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The tree lost all its leaves.

plus the collective suffix -- gives , a set of trees, which is Esperanto's word for forest. That is the tidiest bit of the whole language and it works everywhere once you spot it: and , and , and . Do not stretch to cover timber, though. Wood as a material is , so a wooden table is and never an arboreal one.

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Word family

Words built on arbo with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.

  • arbaronoun

    forest, wood

    arbo-ar-

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This word is taught in chapter 4, lesson 11: arbo, ekvidi, kapti and 7 more words.