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Translation

offspring, child; young (of an animal)

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Examples

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The cat carried her young into the house.

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He is a descendant of a noble family.

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The bird defended its young.

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All the offspring of the king died.

ĝiaj .

The dog and its young slept next to the fire.

is the biological word: the young of an animal, or a descendant in a line. It is not the word for a child in the everyday sense - that is , and calling a small boy an sounds either zoological or insulting. As a suffix -- is one of the tidiest pieces of the language: o kitten, puppy, o foal, prince by birth. The name of the 1907 reform project Ido comes from exactly this suffix, since its authors framed it as the offspring of Esperanto.

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This word is taught in chapter 9, lesson 6: ido, brava, impreso and 7 more words.