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Translation

foreign, strange, unfamiliar

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Examples

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He speaks three foreign languages.

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Unfamiliar people stood in front of the door.

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The town seemed foreign to her.

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Do not take other people's money.

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In a foreign country everything is new.

has a wider reach than foreign. Its core is not-mine, not-ours, so it opposes as squarely as it opposes home. is somebody else's money, not currency from abroad.

The trap for English speakers is the other sense of strange. When you mean odd, weird, peculiar, the word is . is a man nobody here knows; is a man behaving oddly. -- gives , the stranger or foreigner, and fremdlanda narrows things to strictly foreign when the context needs it.

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Word family

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

  • stranger, foreigner

    fremda-ul-

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This word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 1: fremda, paco, finiĝi and 7 more words.