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Translation

zero

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Examples

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The match ended three-nil.

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Today the temperature is zero degrees.

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She made zero mistakes in the test.

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Five and zero make five.

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Last night I slept for zero hours.

is the bare numeral and behaves like every other one: no -j, no -n, so the ending sits on the noun alone, as in . When you want zero as a thing, a digit you write or a score you talk about, give it the noun ending and it becomes , which declines like any noun: . The same root makes , to cancel or annul, which is literally "to make nothing".

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Word family

Words built on nul with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.

  • nuligiverb

    to cancel, to annul

    nul-ig-

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nul: worksheet, infographic and listicle

Free printable study downloads for the Esperanto word "nul" (zero): 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 7: nul, el, unu and 8 more words.