Translation
poor
Examples
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The poor woman asked for bread.
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He was poor, but happy.
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In that country many people are poor.
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She helped the poor children of the village.
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The poverty of the countryside was visible.
English "poor" does two unrelated jobs, and Esperanto splits them cleanly. is only ever about money: no wealth, empty pockets. The pitying "poor thing" is , literally worthy of compassion. So is a boy without money and is a boy you feel sorry for, and mixing them up changes the sentence. The root behaves as you would expect: o is poverty, o a poor person, i to become poor. Nothing here needs memorising beyond the - you already know.
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