Translation
unjust, unfair
Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from mal-, the opposite prefix, on justa. Justa comes from Latin iustus, 'lawful', from ius, law or right - the same root behind justice, judge and jury.
- Origin
- Esperanto derivation
- Root
- mal- + justa
- English cognates
- just, justice, jury
Examples
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It is unfair that he lost his job.
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The king was unjust to the poor farmers.
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No people puts up with unjust laws for ever.
A clean - build, and worth pausing on because it lands in the middle of the three-way knot every learner ties: , , . English blurs all three into "right", and Esperanto keeps them strictly apart.
- Justa is moral. It judges a law, a decision, a sentence, a share-out.
o,. - Prava is about a person holding a correct view in an argument.
a. - Ĝusta is factual accuracy.
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So a judge can be about the facts and still hand down a sentence, and your watch can be a without anybody being a about anything. Get these three straight and a whole class of clumsy sentences disappears.
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