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Translation

objective, impartial

Word origin

Built on objekto, from Latin obiectum, 'the thing thrown before' the mind, plus the international -iv- ending. Something is objective when it belongs to the thing out there rather than to the person looking at it, which is exactly what the Latin says.

Origin
Latin
Root
obiectum
English cognates
objective, object, eject

Examples

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We need an objective report on the matter.

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Staying objective about one's own work is a difficult business.

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A good journalist listens to both sides with an objective mind.

Where it does cut, and where it does not. Objekto is a live Esperanto root at rank 688, so genuinely does contain a word you already have. The -iv- on the end, however, is not one of the official affixes: Esperanto's list is closed, and -iv- is not on it. It is a real thing all the same, and the Reta Vortaro carries it as an unofficial suffix for active capability, set against the Fundamental -- for passive capability: kreiva, produktiva, informiva. The full picture, including why and and are single roots you must not cut at that seam even though they end the same way, is in the unofficial affixes. Treat as a borrowed international word that happens to sit on a root you know, and do not go coining new ones with -iv-.

The pair, and only one half has a page. is what belongs to the object; subjektiva is what belongs to the subject, the person doing the looking. Esperanto has both, built on and subjekto exactly as you would expect, and subjektiva has not yet earned a page in this course. The nouns are o and subjektiveco, and the adverb objektive is the form you will meet most often in argument: objektive , objectively speaking.

Nearby, but not the same. Justa is fair, which is about how you treat people. Neŭtrala is uncommitted, which is about which side you are on. is about whether your account matches the thing itself, and you can be objective and partisan at once, which is the whole reason the word is worth having separately.

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This word is part of lesson 56.