Translation
boy
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Examples
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The boy ran through the garden.
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Two boys played by the river.
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She saw the boy at the door.
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The boy asked about his father.
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When I was a boy, I lived in a village.
is a boy by age, not a son by relation - that is , and the two are easy to blur when translating from English "boy". The usual affixes handle the rest of the set: for a girl, oj for a mixed group of children, o for a small one. If you do not want to specify the sex at all, is the neutral word and is often the better choice.
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Word family
Words built on knabo with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- geknabonoun
(plural) boys and girls, children
ge-knabo: boys and girls together
- knabinonoun
girl
knabo-in-
Used in
Stories
(4)Grammar articles
(8)The Esperanto Calendar: Zamenhofa Tago and Other Festivals
Gender in Esperanto: -in-, ge-, and the Reform That Waits
Esperanto Participles: -anta, -inta, -onta and What They Do
The Esperanto Reflexive: si and sia vs li and lia
Esperanto Reported Speech: li diris, ke li venos
Esperanto Rhyme and Metre: Counting Syllables, Adasismo
Telling the Time and Dates in Esperanto: je la tria
Esperanto Transitivity: Which Verbs Take an Object
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 8: knabo, porti, iam and 7 more words.