Translation
long
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Examples
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The day was long.
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We talked for a long time.
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The night was short.
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How long is the word?
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After a long year he came back.
is one of the roots that makes the case for - on its own: you never learn a word for short, you just say , and the same trick covers , and a few hundred others. Stretches of time take the accusative without a preposition, so needs no word for for. The adverb means for a long time, and means for ages now.
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Word family
Words built on longa with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- delongeadverb
for a long time (now), long since
delonga: from long ago
- longeconoun
length
longa-ec-: the quality of being long
- mallongaadjective
short, brief
mal-longa
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Stories
(5)Grammar articles
(8)Esperanto Aspect Affixes: ek-, re-, -ad-, dis- and mis-
Esperanto Comparisons: pli, plej, ol and kiel
Esperanto Conversation Words: nu, do, ja, fakte, cetere
Esperanto Question Words: Kiu, Kio, Kie and the Ki- Table
Esperanto Body Parts: La Korpo, Head to Foot
Esperanto Particles: 膲i tiu, ju...des, ajn and mem
Esperanto Affixes: The Full List of Prefixes and Suffixes
Esperanto Word Endings: -o, -a, -e and -i
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 1: longa, tago, 膲io and 9 more words.