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#912 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to found, to establish

Examples

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They founded a new society in the town.

Zamenhof okcent okdek .

Zamenhof founded the language in eighteen eighty-seven.

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The school was founded a hundred years ago.

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We will found a magazine for the young members.

opinion?

On what do you base that opinion?

is for institutions - societies, schools, journals, movements - and by extension for basing an argument on something, which takes . It is not the word for building: that is , and you a house but the association that owns it. The noun fondo is the founding, fondinto the founder, o a foundation in the endowment sense. Do not confuse the root with , the bottom of something, or with , which in Esperanto circles usually means the untouchable 1905 grammar rather than any old base.

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This word is part of lesson 19.