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Translation

our

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Examples

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Our language is very good.

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He speaks our language.

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Is that yours or ours?

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Our hands are big.

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Our time has come.

Possessives are built with no new vocabulary at all: take the pronoun and add the adjective ending -a, so gives , exactly as gives and gives . Being an adjective, it then agrees with whatever it describes: before a plural, before an object, before a plural object. Standing alone it also means ours.

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nia: worksheet, infographic and listicle

Free printable study downloads for the Esperanto word "nia" (our): a worksheet with the answer key built in, an infographic, and a sentence listicle. Open any one to view, print or save.

This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 11: nia, plej, voli and 10 more words.