Translation
early
Examples
.
I like the early morning.
, a.
It was still an early hour, and the street was empty.
.
He came too early.
surprizis .
The early winter took the whole village by surprise.
ĉiutage.
She gets up early every day.
English uses one word, early, for both the adjective and the adverb; Esperanto insists you choose. A is an early morning, but you arrive , with -e. Get that wrong and the sentence still parses, which is exactly why the habit takes a while to stick. is late in the sense of after the expected time, and note that it is not the word for the late as in deceased. covers earlier, at the earliest, and o the quality itself.
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