Translation
it
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Examples
.
It is big.
.
I can see it.
, .
It is over there, with them.
.
It cannot speak.
Ĝia .
Its time has already come.
is the pronoun for a thing, an animal or a small child, and it also fills the empty English "it" of "it is late". Object , possessive ĝia. Esperanto puts no gender on nouns at all, so a table, a book and a language are all , and there is nothing to memorise. It has no plural of its own: several things become , the same word used for people.
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Esperanto Fractions, Multiples and Groups: -on-, -obl-, -op-
Gender in Esperanto: -in-, ge-, and the Reform That Waits
Esperanto Impersonal Sentences: oni, pluvas, estas varme
Esperanto Question Words: Kiu, Kio, Kie and the Ki- Table
Esperanto Grammar on One Page: All 16 Rules
Negation in Esperanto: ne, the neni- Words and nek
Esperanto Personal Pronouns: mi, vi, li, ŝi and mia
Esperanto pri- Verbs: pripensi, priskribi, pridemandi
How to Ask Questions in Esperanto: Ĉu, Tags and Answers
Esperanto Rhyme and Metre: Counting Syllables, Adasismo
Esperanto Verb Tenses and Conjugation: -as, -is, -os
Esperanto Verbs and Prepositions: Which One Each Verb Takes
Esperanto Word Endings: -o, -a, -e and -i
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 4: ĝi, ke, kiu and 11 more words.