Kilo Lingo

#819 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

uncle

Examples

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My uncle lives in a small village.

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I saw my uncle yesterday.

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His two uncles were sailors.

donacis .

The uncle gave a book to the child.

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We will visit the uncle and the aunt.

Kinship in Esperanto is built rather than listed, and is the root that hands you the rest: for aunt with the feminine -in-, oj for an uncle and aunt together via the both-sexes prefix -, and o for a great-uncle. There is no separate word for a maternal versus a paternal uncle, which will disappoint anyone coming from Mandarin, where the distinction is compulsory. If you need it, say a . Stress falls on the first syllable, ON-klo, as always on the penultimate.

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This word is part of lesson 17.