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Translation

faithful, loyal

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Examples

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The dog is a faithful friend.

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He stayed true to his promise.

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Loyal readers write to us every week.

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She made a faithful translation of the novel.

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Be loyal, and people will trust you.

The thing you are faithful to arrives with , so , never . The root fid- is the useful part: to trust, trust, to confide, a unfaithful, a trustworthy. Like English, also describes a translation or a copy that sticks close to its original, which is the sense you meet most often in the Esperanto literary press.

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Word family

Words built on fidela with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.

  • fideleconoun

    faithfulness, loyalty

    fidela-ec-: the quality of being faithful

  • malfidelaadjective

    unfaithful, disloyal

    mal-fidela: the opposite of faithful

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This word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 13: fidela, ĉiutaga, mieno and 7 more words.