Translation
fault, guilt, blame
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Examples
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The fault is entirely mine.
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He did not want to admit his guilt.
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She felt great guilt over her words.
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Through whose fault did that happen?
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The judge found no fault in him.
is moral or legal fault: somebody did something they should not have. It is not the English fault that means a defect, so a cracked wall or a broken machine has a or an , never a kulpo.
The family is tidy and worth having whole. is guilty, is innocent, is to be at fault, and i is to blame someone, which is one of those -- forms that saves a whole phrase. sits alongside for the specifically religious sense of sin.
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Word family
Words built on kulpo with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- kulpulonoun
culprit, guilty party
kulpo-ul-: a person at fault
- senkulpaadjective
innocent, blameless
senkulpo: without guilt
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 11: kulpo, gepatro, sopiri and 7 more words.