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#2843 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

postmodern

Word origin

Built inside Esperanto from post, after, and moderna, modern, on the model of the international postmodern. Both halves were already ordinary Esperanto words before the compound existed.

Origin
Esperanto compound
Root
post + moderna
English cognates
postmodern

Examples

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Her new novel is very postmodern.

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The postmodern building mixes every style of the past.

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He wrote a long article about postmodern art.

A real seam, which is rarer than it should be this far down a borrowed vocabulary: post (after, rank 43) plus (rank 1279). Nothing was imported whole. A learner who knows both halves can read the word cold, which is more than most people who use it in English can claim.

It inflects like any other adjective: , oj, postmoderne if you want the adverb. The noun for the movement is postmodernismo.

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This word is part of lesson 57.