Kilo Lingo

#936 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

hill, hillock

Examples

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On the hill stood a small house.

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We climbed the hill before evening.

ĉirkaŭis .

Green hills surrounded the village.

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From the hill you can see the whole town.

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The sun disappeared behind the hill.

is a mountain and -- shrinks it, so is a hill. That is the whole word, and it is a fair illustration of why Esperanto vocabulary is smaller than it looks: the diminutive and augmentative pair -- and -- do work that English spends separate roots on. gives for a cottage, gives o for a downpour. Size is relative to the root, so a in a flat country and a in the Alps are not remotely the same object. Climbing one takes the accusative of motion: .

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This word is part of lesson 19.