Translation
big; large
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Examples
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That man is very tall.
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Did you see the tall gentleman?
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He is bigger than I am.
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That is a great truth.
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She has great willpower.
covers big, large, tall and great, and like all adjectives it agrees with its noun: , , . The affixes do the rest of the scale for you, so is small, is enormous and a is on the large side. o is size, and the adverb means on a large scale.
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Words built on granda with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 12: granda, multa, veni and 9 more words.