Translation
football, soccer
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Word origin
Straight from English football, taken in through the international sporting vocabulary rather than built from Esperanto roots. Nearly every language that met the game in the nineteenth century borrowed the English name in some shape, which is exactly why Esperanto did too.
- Origin
- English
- Root
- football
- English cognates
- football
Examples
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My brother plays football every Saturday in the park.
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The two teams played very good football.
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Do you prefer football or another sport?
This is the other half of the football argument. Piedpilkado builds the word out of , and -ad-, which is elegant and free for anyone who already knows those roots. borrows the international word whole. Both are correct, both are understood everywhere, and the choice between them is one of the small, cheerful, permanent quarrels of the language.
Where the two pages agree: is what PIV leads with and what people actually say. The Esperanto national side calls itself the , not the piedpilka one. In a bar, in a match report, in a headline, you will meet first. Learn so you recognise it and so you understand the argument, and say if you want to be understood without a footnote.
The family is regular. is the adjective, o a footballer, o the ground, a match. Note that the ball itself is the plain pilko: is the game, not the object, in the same way English "football" splits between the two and Esperanto does not have to.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 24, lesson 3: futbalo, mafio, krevi and 7 more words.