Kilo Lingo

#831 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

extremely, greatly

Examples

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The house is extremely old.

ĝojas .

I am extremely glad to see you.

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She speaks extremely quickly.

e .

It was extremely difficult to find the way.

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He greatly feared the old master.

This is the augmentative suffix -- standing on its own legs as a word, which Esperanto allows for every affix: for tiny, ino for a female, for a tool, for hugely. Nothing else in the language does that so freely, and it is one of the reasons the grammar feels like a kit rather than a list. and both intensify, but is neutral where is emphatic, roughly the gap between "very" and "hugely". Unlike it also sits happily in front of a verb.

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This word is part of lesson 17.