Kilo Lingo

#528 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

church

Examples

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The church stands in the middle of the village.

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She went to church every Sunday.

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We saw an ancient church with a tall tower.

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In the church there was darkness and silence.

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The priest waited for us in front of the church.

This is plus --, the place suffix, so a church is literally a praying-place. Learn the suffix and you get a whole vocabulary for nothing: school, flat, o kitchen, office. Usefully, is neutral about denomination or religion, so it covers a chapel or a cathedral without fuss, and where the distinction matters you say , or sinagogo. Note that Esperanto keeps the article where English drops it: you go , never bare .

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This word is part of lesson 11.