Translation
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Examples
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He and she are coming to us.
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He is tall and good.
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She said that and left.
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Both I and he know the truth.
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Now you and I can talk.
joins words, phrases and whole clauses, and like every Esperanto function word it never inflects. Doubled up at the front of both halves it means "both ... and": is "both I and he". In a list it takes no comma before it, so , is the ordinary written form.
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Stories
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 3: Your first ten words.