Translation
left, left-hand
Examples
.
He writes with his left hand.
.
The house stands on the left side of the street.
en .
Turn left at the big tree.
e .
To the left of the door hung a picture.
doloris.
Her left foot hurt.
Left is the marked term here: is right, and - flips it, which some learners resent as a lot of syllables for a common word. The shorter liva exists in poetry and in a few technical registers but is rare enough that is the safe choice everywhere. The pieces to learn are the adverbs. e is a position, on the left, and takes for what it is left of. en, with the accusative of direction, is movement: en, go leftwards. Politically it works exactly as in English, so o is the left wing.
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