Translation
ordinary, usual
Examples
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It was a completely ordinary day.
, ornamo.
He wore ordinary clothes, without any decoration.
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The house looks ordinary from outside.
e sepa.
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 eksterordinara, the second built transparently from plus the adjective. The adverb e 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 o is easy to follow, an o is nothing you have not heard before. In the older literature it sometimes carries a faint sniff of the commonplace.
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