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Translation

ear

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Examples

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He has big ears and good hearing.

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She said the secret into my ear.

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The noise hurt my ears.

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The dog raised its ears and listened.

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My ears were red from the cold wind.

Straightforward body-part noun, and the usual accusative rule applies: with -n for whispering into it, without for something already sitting there. Orelringo is an earring, and o the flap on a hat, both formed the obvious way. Where English says a good ear for music, Esperanto prefers , since the idiom does not carry over. Note that in the plural is unremarkable, unlike , because ears come in a countable pair to begin with.

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This word is taught in chapter 6, lesson 8: orelo, gloro, aparteni and 7 more words.