Translation
devil
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Examples
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In the old story the devil visits the village.
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He believed neither in God nor in the devil.
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The priest spoke at length about the devil.
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The boy was not afraid of the devil.
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What a devilish noise is coming from the yard!
earns its place in the top thousand mainly through fiction: the early Esperanto corpus is thick with translated folk tales, and folk tales are thick with devils. It carries the same mild swearing duty as in English, so ! works as an exclamation and as an intensifier, both a shade coarser than anything you would write in a formal letter. Belief takes or : . Do not confuse it with , which is a separate root despite the shared opening letters.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 5, lesson 13: diablo, frua, devigi and 7 more words.