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Translation

Spaniard, Spanish person

Examples

suda .

He is a Spaniard from a big southern city.

.

The Spaniards speak a beautiful language.

o.

My best friend is a Spanish woman.

.

We met two Spaniards at the congress.

hispana .

The Spanish language is not difficult.

Nationality words in Esperanto name the person first, and everything else is derived from that. is a Spaniard, o a Spanish woman, hispana (with understood) is the language, and the country is Hispanio, or o in the older -- style that Zamenhof used. Note the lowercase: unlike English, the noun and adjective both stay in small letters, and only the country name is capitalised. The same pattern gives , , and .

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This word is part of lesson 20.