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Translation

prince

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Examples

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The prince lived in a big palace.

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The young prince was the son of the king.

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All the princes of the land came to the feast.

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She met the prince in the garden.

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The prince left his country.

is one of the ready-made international roots the language simply took in, and the affixes save you the rest of the vocabulary list: o for a princess, for princely, princlando for a principality. The word turns up far more often than its real-world usefulness would suggest, because so much early Esperanto reading is fairy tales - Zamenhof translated Andersen, and the corpus has never quite got over it.

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Word family

Words built on princo with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.

  • crown prince, the heir to a throne

    kronoprinco

  • princinonoun

    princess

    princo-in-: a female prince

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This word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 9: princo, ambaŭ, dormi and 7 more words.