Translation
toilet, lavatory
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Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from necesa ('necessary') and the place suffix -ej-, so literally the necessary place. English made the same polite side-step once with the necessary house before settling on other euphemisms.
- Origin
- Esperanto compound
- Root
- neces- + -ej-
Examples
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Where is the toilet, please?
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The toilet in the hotel is clean.
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After the long journey he immediately looked for a toilet.
One of the phrases worth learning before you need it. is the neutral, universally understood word; you will also meet for a bathroom and, on doors, plain WC. The suffix -- is doing the usual job of turning a quality into the place where it applies.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 16, lesson 2: necesejo, sekso, abunda and 7 more words.