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Translation

to enter, to go in

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Examples

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He entered the room without knocking.

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Do not go in, the door is closed.

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I want to enter the house.

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The boy came in and greeted everyone.

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She will come into the room in a minute.

is plus , and it keeps both parents' habits. You can treat it as transitive and give the place a plain accusative ( ), or keep the preposition and put the -n on the noun after it ( ). Both are correct; the second is the older, more Zamenhofian shape. What you cannot do is write , because without the -n there is no movement and the sentence says you are already inside. Its opposite is , and the pair enir- / elir- gives you and , the entrance and the exit on every Esperanto congress signpost.

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This word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 1: eniri, vojo, juna and 7 more words.