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Translation

form, shape

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Examples

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The cloud had a strange shape.

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Every verb has many forms.

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He wrote the letter in a simple form.

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Water takes the shape of its vessel.

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We saw a black shape in the darkness.

covers physical shape and abstract form alike, including the grammatical sense you will meet on every page of a course book. The verb is to shape something, i is to take shape, and is to transform. Careful with o: a form you fill in is a o, not a , and the two are easy to run together for anyone whose first language uses one word for both.

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Word family

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

  • to transform, to turn into

    transformo

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This word is taught in chapter 4, lesson 8: formo, teni, viziti and 6 more words.