Translation
out of
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Examples
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He came out of the house.
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One of us has to go.
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Which of these people speaks our language?
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Many of the people have already arrived.
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Of all the languages, this one is the best.
El means "out of", both physically (veni el la domo) and partitively (unu el ni, one taken out of the group). Set it against de, which is the general "of" or "from" without the sense of coming out. El already carries its own direction, so it never needs the accusative -n after it.
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(4)Grammar articles
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Esperanto Correlatives in Use: tiu kiu, tio kion and More
Esperanto Correlatives Table: All 45 Words on One Grid
Esperanto Demonstratives: Tiu, Tio and 膲i for This
What to Read in Esperanto: The Bookshelf, In Order
Esperantismo and the Interna Ideo: What Esperanto Is For
Esperanto hodia怒: Where the Language Actually Lives
Esperanto Question Words: Kiu, Kio, Kie and the Ki- Table
Esperanto Food and Cooking Words: Kuirarto kaj Man臐o
The Esperanto Congress: Universala Kongreso and Its Words
Esperanto Prepositions: The Full List, With Examples
Esperanto pri- Verbs: pripensi, priskribi, pridemandi
Tricky Esperanto Prepositions: je, po and Direction -n
The Esperanto Suffix -um: The Official Wildcard
Esperanto Verbs and Prepositions: Which One Each Verb Takes
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 7: el, unu, pli and 8 more words.