Translation
power, might
Examples
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The king lost his power.
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He believed in the power of the word.
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Great powers fought over that country.
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She has great power over them.
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The power of nature is terrible.
English gets one word where Esperanto sensibly uses three. is power as authority and might, the kind a state or a monarch holds. Forto is physical strength, the kind that shifts a piano. Povo is the bare capacity to do a thing, the noun behind . Choosing correctly among them is one of the quiet marks of a competent speaker. Potenca means mighty, o is somebody with clout, and mathematics borrows the word for an exponent, so tria is two cubed.
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