Translation
mother
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Examples
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My mother is very dear to me.
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The child looked at his mother.
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She became a mother that year.
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My father's mother is still alive.
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Mother, I am asking for your help.
is - plus -in- and nothing else: one suffix turns father into mother, and the same one gives , , , . Stack on - for both sexes together and you get , parents. is motherly, o fatherhood. As an object it takes -n: .
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Word family
Words built on patrino with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- bopatrinonoun
mother-in-law
bo-patrino: a mother by marriage
- panjonoun
mum, mummy
patrino-nj-
Used in
Stories
(3)Grammar articles
(6)Gender in Esperanto: -in-, ge-, and the Reform That Waits
The Esperanto Passive: -ata, -ita, -ota and esti
Personal Names in Esperanto: Johano, John or Ĝon?
Esperanto Personal Pronouns: mi, vi, li, ŝi and mia
Esperanto Proverbs: 15 From Zamenhof's Proverbaro
Esperanto Affixes: The Full List of Prefixes and Suffixes
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 13: patrino, terura, malgranda and 7 more words.