Translation
tool, instrument
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Examples
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The man took his tools and left.
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A language is a tool, not a goal.
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Do you have a tool for opening the window?
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That tool is very useful.
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Without good tools the work is difficult.
This is one of the neat cases where a suffix is also a word in its own right. -- builds the instrument for an action, so gives o for a pen, gives o for a toy, and gives o for a knife. Standing alone, is the general noun for any of them. Do not stretch it to cover means or methods in the abstract - that is . And is the whole toolkit, -- doing its usual collecting job on top.
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Word family
Words built on ilo with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- ilaronoun
set of tools, toolkit
ilo-ar-: a collection of tools
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 8, lesson 4: ilo, vigla, ŝtuparo and 7 more words.