Translation
wife
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Examples
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His wife is a doctor.
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I present my wife to you.
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The king's wife was beautiful.
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She became his wife ten years ago.
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Both wives waited in the drawing room.
is - plus the feminine -in-, and the root itself carries no sex: is a husband, oj a married couple, to get married. Notice that the family words behave differently here from English, where "wife" and "husband" share nothing. o is a wedding, o an ex-wife. If you want the neutral word for a spouse without saying which, in its plain sense or o will do the job.
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Word family
Words built on edzino with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- edzini臐iverb
to marry, to get married (of a woman)
edzino-i臐-: to become a wife
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 8: edzino, porti, iam and 7 more words.