Kilo Lingo

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Translation

of; from

Examples

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The gentleman's hand is big.

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He is coming from there.

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That is everybody's language.

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The truth came from him.

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From now on we shall talk only about that.

covers both possession ("of") and origin ("from"), so it does the work of the English apostrophe-s as well: . Like every Esperanto preposition of place it is followed by the plain nominative, never the accusative. Watch the split with its two neighbours: a part taken out of a whole uses ( , "one of us"), and a quantity uses ( , "much time").

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This word is part of lesson 1.