Translation
former, no longer holding the role
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Examples
o .
Her ex-husband now lives in another town.
o .
The former king lives quietly by the sea.
o .
The former president wrote a long book.
o .
He is a former member of our society.
.
They divorced two years ago.
- strips the title and leaves the person standing. gives o, gives o, gives o, gives o. The root keeps its ending, and the prefix works as a verb root in its own right: is to dismiss somebody, is to resign.
It needs a role that can be held and then lost. o is nonsense, because nobody stops being a father, and native-feeling Esperanto simply refuses the combination.
For former in the weaker sense of earlier, reach for antaÅa or iama instead. And note that is the act of divorcing, not a vague memory of having once been married.
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