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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