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Translation

movement (organised); motion

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Examples

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The Esperanto movement is growing in many countries.

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He worked for the movement for thirty years.

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We talked about the aims of the movement.

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I noticed movement among the trees.

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New movements appeared after the war.

plus -ad- gives sustained, repeated action, so is motion that keeps going rather than a single shift, which would be . That is why the noun landed on political and social movements: an organised cause is exactly ongoing action with a . In Esperanto texts with no qualifier almost always means the Esperanto movement itself, and you will meet it constantly in prose and congress reports. The -ad- suffix is worth stealing for other roots: gives , gives , same logic every time.

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This word is taught in chapter 10, lesson 3: movado, vagonaro, ŝanĝiĝi and 7 more words.