Translation
ordinary, usual
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Examples
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It was a completely ordinary day.
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He wore ordinary clothes, without any decoration.
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The house looks ordinary from outside.
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Usually I work until seven.
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That is not an ordinary matter in our country.
describes what is usual or run of the mill, and its natural opposites are and , the second built transparently from plus the adjective. The adverb is the one you will actually reach for most, since it does the work of usually or as a rule. Keep it apart from , which is about lack of complication rather than lack of distinction: a is easy to follow, an is nothing you have not heard before. In the older literature it sometimes carries a faint sniff of the commonplace.
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Words built on ordinara with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- eksterordinaraadjective
extraordinary
eksterordinara: outside the ordinary
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 6, lesson 3: ordinara, peza, pura and 7 more words.