Translation
uncle
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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.
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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 . Stress falls on the first syllable, ON-klo, as always on the penultimate.
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Word family
Words built on onklo with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- onklinonoun
aunt
onklo-in-
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 9, lesson 2: onklo, konfuzi, speco and 6 more words.