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Translation

free

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Examples

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The bird is free.

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I have a free day tomorrow.

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Every person is born free.

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Is that seat free?

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They fought for a free country.

English overloads free and Esperanto refuses to. is free as in unconstrained, unoccupied or at liberty; free of charge is senpaga, without payment, and never . So a is a book nobody is using and a senpaga is one you do not pay for. The root gives for freedom, to set free and i to break free under your own steam.

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Word family

Words built on libera with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.

  • freedom, liberty

    libera-ec-

  • to free, to release, to liberate

    libera-ig-

  • libervolaadjective

    voluntary, of one's own free will

    liberavoli

  • malliberaadjective

    unfree, captive

    mal-libera: the opposite of free

  • malliberejonoun

    prison, jail

    mal-libera-ej-: a place of unfreedom

    The meaning has moved on from the parts: learn it as a word.

  • malliberulonoun

    prisoner

    mal-libera-ul-: a person who is not free

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This word is taught in chapter 5, lesson 6: libera, koleri, hundo and 7 more words.