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Translation

desert, wilderness

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Examples

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The desert is vast and scorching.

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They travelled through the desert for three weeks.

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In the desert there is no water.

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He saw only sand and sky in the desert.

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The town stood in the middle of the desert.

A false friend worth flagging: is a desert, the empty place, not a dessert. Pudding is with one letter fewer, and the two words have been quietly ruining Esperanto menus for a century. The adjective means deserted or desolate as well as literally desert, and i is to lay waste to somewhere. The unrelated verb , to desert from an army, is a third trap in the same phonetic neighbourhood.

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This word is taught in chapter 10, lesson 2: dezerto, eksidi, fondi and 7 more words.