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Translation

group, set, collection

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Examples

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A group of children ran through the street.

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I saw a flock of birds above the forest.

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The group grew every year.

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She belongs to a small set of loyal friends.

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Large groups of people came to the congress.

is one of those Esperanto words that is also a piece of grammar standing on its own two feet. The suffix -- builds a collection out of a unit, so gives (forest), gives (humanity), gives (dictionary), and is that same morpheme wearing a noun ending. Quantity takes : . Use only when you mean a set drawn from a definite group, as in . Against , which is a heap or a milling crowd, is the tidier word - a set, not a scrum.

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This word is taught in chapter 5, lesson 12: aro, nacio, laŭta and 6 more words.