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Line drawing of intervjuo
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Translation

interview

Word origin

Borrowed whole from English interview, which English had itself taken from French entrevue, a meeting between people. Esperanto took the modern journalistic sense along with the modern spelling, which is why the word carries an unusual vj cluster.

Origin
English, from French
Root
interview
English cognates
interview

Examples

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The journalist did a long interview with the teacher.

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I read the interview in the magazine.

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The interview lasted more than an hour.

The seam you can see here is not a seam. - is a real and busy Esperanto element - inter is a preposition in its own right, and it builds , interŝanĝi, - so the eye splits this word as plus vjuo and waits for vjuo to mean something. It never does. There is no such root. - arrived in one piece from English, and it is the English word that contains the Latin , several centuries and one language earlier.

You can tell by the shape of it. Vj is not a cluster Esperanto builds; the language's own roots keep their consonants comfortable, and the only reason this one is awkward is that we are looking at a photocopy of an English spelling. Compare intervidiĝi, to meet face to face, which is assembled from Esperanto parts and looks like it.

The family works normally once the root is in place. Intervjui is to interview someone, intervjuanto is the one asking and intervjuato the one being asked - the participial nominals doing what they always do, sorting out who is on which end of the verb.

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This word is part of lesson 43.