Translation
captain
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Examples
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The captain stood on his big ship.
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We obeyed the captain without questions.
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Two captains talked about the gale.
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The sailors loved their old captain.
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He will become a captain in three years.
covers both the ship and the army sense, exactly as in English, and it is one of those internationalisms Zamenhof took wholesale rather than building from a root. That means there is no verb worth using; say or reach for if you mean the leading rather than the rank. The feminine o exists and is unremarkable. Watch the spelling trap: it is not kapteno or o, and it has nothing to do with , to catch, despite the tempting overlap in the first three letters.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 9, lesson 1: kapitano, malesperi, kastelo and 7 more words.