Translation
place used for the root's activity
Examples
ĉiumatene.
The children go to school every morning.
o.
I bought bread in the shop.
tria .
His office is on the third floor.
is .
We met in front of the church.
o odoras .
The kitchen smells of coffee.
-- names the place where the root happens. gives , gives , gives o, gives o. The result is a noun in -o, and the root is usually a verb, though a noun root works too: is built on , while o sits on .
The nuance worth holding on to is that -- gives you a room, a building or a site, never a container. A place you put things in is -- or --, so a shoe shop is a ŝuvendejo but a shoe box is not. And do not stretch it into abstraction: an office as an institution or a post is a different idea from the room it occupies, and Esperanto keeps those apart.
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