Translation
ten
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Examples
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I have ten books.
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We waited ten minutes.
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Ten people came to the meeting.
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The boy is ten years old.
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After ten days she will return.
The numerals are bare roots that never take -j or -n, so it is with the plural sitting only on the noun. Tens are built by writing the multiplier tight against : , , , all one word. Units are written apart: is twelve, is twenty-three. Deko with a noun ending means a set of ten, and is tenth, which is how every ordinal in the language is made.
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Word family
Words built on dek with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
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Stories
(8)Grammar articles
(9)The Esperanto Accusative: What -n Does, and Its Four Jobs
Esperanto Fractions, Multiples and Groups: -on-, -obl-, -op-
Gender in Esperanto: -in-, ge-, and the Reform That Waits
Esperanto Grammar on One Page: All 16 Rules
Esperanto Measurements: Units, Decimals and Rates Aloud
Esperanto Numbers: Counting With Nine Roots, No Exceptions
Esperanto Quantity Words: iom, multe, kelkaj and da
Telling the Time and Dates in Esperanto: je la tria
Tricky Esperanto Prepositions: je, po and Direction -n
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 11: dek, plej, nia and 10 more words.