Translation
young
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Examples
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The young man stood at the door.
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She is still very young.
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Young people learn quickly.
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I knew him when he was young.
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The young girls sang in the garden.
The trap here is the opposite. flips to , which is old of people and animals; a coat or a house that has been around a while is . Call your grandmother and you have described her as second-hand. The root also hands you and for a young man and a young woman, for youth as a quality, and for young people as a collective - the word all over the Esperanto movement's own literature, which has always been unusually keen on recruiting the young.
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Word family
Words built on juna with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- juneconoun
youth, youthfulness
juna-ec-: the quality of being young
- junularaadjective
youth (as in a youth organisation)
juna-ul--ar-: of the young people
- junularonoun
young people, the youth
juna-ul--ar-: a group of young people
- junulinonoun
young woman, girl
juna-ul--in-: a young female person
- junulonoun
young man, youngster, youth
juna-ul-
- maljunaadjective
old, elderly, aged (of a person)
mal-juna
- maljuneconoun
old age
mal-juna-ec-: the state of being old
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 1: juna, eniri, vojo and 7 more words.