Translation
female counterpart of the root
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Examples
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My mother works in the garden.
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The girl and the boy are playing together.
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She is my brother's wife.
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The queen greeted the people.
Parizo.
My sister studies in Paris.
-in- makes the female member of a pair. gives , gives , gives , gives . The result is almost always a noun in -o, and it stacks happily with other suffixes, which is how you get from .
Two things catch people out. First, looks like a derivative of a male root but - is simply the root for human male, so the word is built like any other. Second, most Esperanto roots are neutral rather than masculine: , and cover anyone, so adding -in- is a choice you make when the sex matters, not an obligation. When you want both sexes at once, - is the prefix you reach for instead.
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Grammar articles
(6)Esperanto Suffixes -et-, -eg-, -ul-, -ist- and -an-
Gender in Esperanto: -in-, ge-, and the Reform That Waits
Esperanto Participles as Nouns: parolanto, venkinto
Personal Names in Esperanto: Johano, John or Äon?
Scientific Esperanto: The Register That Almost Won
Esperanto Affixes: The Full List of Prefixes and Suffixes
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