Translation
he
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Examples
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He is a good man.
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I can see him.
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His hand is big.
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We spoke to him about that.
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He said that he would come.
is the masculine third-person pronoun, with the object form and the possessive . Where English lets "he ... his" be ambiguous, Esperanto is precise: if the possessor is the subject of the same clause you must switch to , so is another man's hand and is his own. The same split runs through the object pronoun, against sin.
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(6)Grammar articles
(59)The Esperanto Accusative: What -n Does, and Its Four Jobs
Adverbs in Esperanto: -e, and Why estas varme Has No Noun
Esperanto Aspect Affixes: ek-, re-, -ad-, dis- and mis-
Esperanto Apposition: la urbon Parizon and the Echoed -n
Esperanto Capital Letters: Esperanto, franco, lundo
Esperanto Comparisons: pli, plej, ol and kiel
Esperanto Compound Tenses: esti + Participle, and When
Esperanto -us and -u: Conditional and Imperative
Esperanto Connectors: tamen, kvankam, eĉ se, do and tial
Esperanto Correlatives in Use: tiu kiu, tio kion and More
Esperanto Correlatives Table: All 45 Words on One Grid
Esperanto Demonstratives: Tiu, Tio and ĉi for This
Esperanto Restaurant Phrases: Ordering, Bonan Apetiton, Toasts
What to Read in Esperanto: The Bookshelf, In Order
Esperantismo and the Interna Ideo: What Esperanto Is For
Esperanto and the Religions: An Unexpected History
Esperanto False Friends: Words That Lie to English Speakers
The Esperanto Calendar: Zamenhofa Tago and Other Festivals
Finvenkismo and Raŭmismo: Esperanto's Big Argument
Esperanto Fractions, Multiples and Groups: -on-, -obl-, -op-
Gender in Esperanto: -in-, ge-, and the Reform That Waits
The History of Esperanto in Ten Episodes, 1859 to Today
Homaranismo: Zamenhof's Creed, Kept Apart from Esperanto
Esperanto -ig- and -iĝ-: Making and Becoming
Esperanto Impersonal Sentences: oni, pluvas, estas varme
Esperanto Interjections: Ho, Nu, Ve and Sound Words
Esperanto Question Words: Kiu, Kio, Kie and the Ki- Table
How to Actually Learn Esperanto, and Why It Is Faster
Esperanto Food and Cooking Words: Kuirarto kaj Manĝo
The Esperanto Letter Ĥ: The Least-Loved Letter
Esperanto Body Parts: La Korpo, Head to Foot
Esperanto Grammar on One Page: All 16 Rules
Esperanto Language Names: la angla, la anglan and angle
Negation in Esperanto: ne, the neni- Words and nek
Esperanto Nouns and Adjectives: -o, -a and Agreement
Esperanto Punctuation, Spelling and Abbreviations
Spoken Esperanto: What People Actually Say
Esperanto Participles: -anta, -inta, -onta and What They Do
Esperanto Particles: ĉi tiu, ju...des, ajn and mem
The Esperanto Passive: -ata, -ita, -ota and esti
Personal Names in Esperanto: Johano, John or Ĝon?
Esperanto Personal Pronouns: mi, vi, li, ŝi and mia
Esperanto Prepositions: The Full List, With Examples
Esperanto pri- Verbs: pripensi, priskribi, pridemandi
How to Ask Questions in Esperanto: Ĉu, Tags and Answers
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
Esperanto Slang: Sound Like an Insider, Not a Textbook
Esperanto Subordinate Clauses: ke, kiu, kiam and Commas
The Esperanto Article la: When to Use It and When Not
Telling the Time and Dates in Esperanto: je la tria
Esperanto Transitivity: Which Verbs Take an Object
Tricky Esperanto Prepositions: je, po and Direction -n
The Esperanto Suffix -um: The Official Wildcard
Esperanto Verb Tenses and Conjugation: -as, -is, -os
Esperanto Verbs and Prepositions: Which One Each Verb Takes
Esperanto Word Endings: -o, -a, -e and -i
Esperanto Word Order: Emphasis, ne and ankaŭ
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 3: Your first ten words.