Translation
child
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Examples
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The child is alone in the house.
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She has three children.
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The mother looked at her child.
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Children understand more quickly than we do.
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When I was a child, I lived in that town.
is a child of either sex, and the affixes handle the rest: o is childhood with --, is childish, o a tiny one. and are the boy and girl words when you need the sex marked. Note in the third example: because the owner is the subject, -n because the child is the object of .
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Word family
Words built on infano with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- infaneconoun
childhood
infano-ec-: the state of being a child
- infanistinonoun
nanny, nursemaid
infano-ist--in-: a woman whose job is looking after children
Used in
Stories
(6)Grammar articles
(6)Esperanto False Friends: Words That Lie to English Speakers
Gender in Esperanto: -in-, ge-, and the Reform That Waits
Esperanto Participles: -anta, -inta, -onta and What They Do
The Esperanto Passive: -ata, -ita, -ota and esti
The Esperanto Suffix -um: The Official Wildcard
Esperanto Word Order: Emphasis, ne and anka怒
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 9: infano, tra, mondo and 6 more words.