Kilo Lingo

#595 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to build, to construct

Examples

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They built a new house next to the river.

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We will build a bridge across the river.

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The town was built a thousand years ago.

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He is building a wall out of stone.

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Who built that beautiful church?

The payoff here is the suffix --, which turns an action into the concrete thing that results from it. is to build; is the building. Once you see that, the same trick unlocks dozens of words elsewhere: o from , o from . o is the process rather than the product, and o is the person doing it. i rebuilds, which is what most of the older Esperanto texts about European cities are describing.

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This word is part of lesson 12.