Translation
both sexes taken together
Examples
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My parents live in the countryside.
oj .
The siblings quarrelled about the house.
oj .
The married couple bought a small house.
oj, .
Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated.
oj .
The boys and girls played in the yard.
- gathers both sexes into one word. gives , parents; gives oj, siblings; gives oj, a married couple; gives oj, the standard way to open a letter or address a room. The output is a noun in -o, and it is very nearly always plural, because a mixed group needs at least two people in it.
That plural is the trap. A singular is a curiosity rather than an everyday word, so use when you mean one of them. - is the natural counterpart of -in-: where -in- picks out the female half, - refuses to pick at all.
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