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Translation

year

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Examples

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The year was long.

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Many years ago there lived a king.

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He stayed three years in the town.

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In a year we shall come back.

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Every year is a new beginning.

A stretch of time takes the accusative with no preposition at all: . That is a genuine use of -n that has nothing to do with objects, and it catches learners who have been told the accusative marks what the verb acts on. For a point in the past use , so is three years ago, while post is in three years. e means annually.

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Word family

Words built on jaro with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.

  • 膲iujareadverb

    every year, annually

    膲iujaro: in each year

  • century

    jarocent

  • decade

    jarodek

  • miljaronoun

    millennium

    miljaro: a thousand years

  • novjaraadjective

    New Year's

    novajaro: of the new year

  • novjaronoun

    New Year

    novajaro: the new year

  • venontjareadverb

    next year

    venijaro: in the coming year

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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 4: jaro, ami, koro and 11 more words.