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swimming pool

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In the summer we often go to the swimming pool.

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The children are swimming in the pool.

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The water in the pool is cold.

is a build, and a completely transparent one: naĝi to swim, plus --, the place suffix, plus the noun ending. The place for swimming. A learner who knows both pieces has never seen the word before and still cannot get it wrong.

-- is one of the highest-yield suffixes in the language and it works the same way every time: a school (from , to learn), o a kitchen (, to cook), a bathroom or bathing place (), o a dormitory, o a shop. It attaches to whatever the place is for, verb or noun, and it never surprises you.

Two neighbours worth knowing. Naĝbaseno - swim + basin - is the other common word for a pool, slightly more technical, and is the place you go to bathe rather than to swim laps. is a swimmer, naĝarto the art of swimming, o a fin or flipper.

The other -- build in this chapter is elirejo, the way out, and the affixes for size and people article covers the wider family.

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This word is taught in chapter 24, lesson 2: naĝejo, konkuri, kamelo and 7 more words.