Translation
animal, beast
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Examples
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Many animals live in the forest.
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The animal was big and black.
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He loves all animals.
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Wild animals fear fire.
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The animal ran across the field.
is the plain word for a non-human animal and carries none of the menace English loads into "beast". People are and sit outside the category, which is why is a normal pairing rather than a redundancy. If you want the loaded sense, the pejorative suffix supplies it: o. Going the other way, o is a small creature, o a whole population of them, and describes anything animal in nature.
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Word family
Words built on besto with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- bestoĝardenonoun
zoo
bestoĝardeno
- fibestonoun
vile beast, vermin
fi-besto: a shameful animal
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 4, lesson 11: besto, ekvidi, kapti and 7 more words.