Translation
art; skill, craft
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Examples
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She studies art in a big city.
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The art of speaking is difficult.
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He knows the art of hiding his feelings.
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Music is for me the purest art.
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In that house there are many works of art.
carries both halves of the English word: the gallery sense and the older sense of skill or craft. So and both work, and neither needs apologising for.
Note the third example. After you can put a bare infinitive, , where English would insist on of hiding. is artistic, o an artist, and means artificial, literally made by art, which is a rather lovely way to say synthetic.
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Word family
Words built on arto with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- artaĵonoun
work of art
arto-aĵ-: something made by art
- artefaritaadjective
artificial, man-made
artofari-it-
- artistonoun
artist
arto-ist-: a person whose work is art
- kuirartonoun
cookery, the culinary art
kuiriarto
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 3: arto, fakto, nobla and 7 more words.