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Translation

brother

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Examples

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My brother lives in another city.

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He has two brothers and one sister.

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The brothers worked together in the field.

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She wrote a long letter to her brother.

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My younger brother still goes to school.

The family words are a good place to see three affixes working at once. adds -in- for a sister. oj adds - for siblings of both sexes together, and that is the point of the prefix: a group of only sisters is , never oj. o is brotherhood, a word the early movement wore threadbare in its speeches about uniting the peoples. The same pattern runs through and , and oj, so learning it once buys you the whole family tree.

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Word family

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

  • bofratinonoun

    sister-in-law

    bo-frato-in-: a sister by marriage

  • bofratonoun

    brother-in-law

    bo-frato: a brother by marriage

  • duonfratonoun

    half-brother

    duonofrato: a half brother

  • frateconoun

    brotherhood, fraternity

    frato-ec-: the state of being brothers

  • fratinonoun

    sister

    frato-in-

  • gefratonoun

    sibling; (plural) brothers and sisters

    ge-frato: brothers and sisters together

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This word is taught in chapter 4, lesson 2: frato, popolo, facila and 7 more words.