Translation
nation
Examples
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Our nation is small but proud.
vivon.
He loves his nation more than his own life.
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Many nations took part in the congress.
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The language binds the nation together.
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Every nation has its own history.
Keep the three apart and your Esperanto gets sharper straight away: is the territory, is the people, is the people understood as a political body. The root hands you nacia for national, samnaciano for a fellow national, and above all , which is the word Zamenhof leaned on hardest - Esperanto was sold as an , a bridge between nations rather than a replacement for any of them. That framing is why turns up so often in the movement's own prose and so rarely in a shopping list.
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