Translation
people, nation
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Examples
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The people wanted peace.
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Every people has its own customs.
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The king spoke to his people.
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Among the peoples of Europe there are many languages.
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That song is known throughout the whole people.
is a collective: one nation's people, taking a singular verb. The trap is that English "people" also just means several persons, and for that you want . So is many nations, not many folk in a room, and getting it wrong inflates a queue at the bakery into an international summit. The adjective means folk or popular in the sense of belonging to the people, and Zamenhof's language was aimed at exactly this level, the ordinary speaker rather than the scholar.
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Words built on popolo with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- interpopolaadjective
international, between peoples
interpopolo: between peoples
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 4, lesson 2: popolo, facila, korpo and 7 more words.