Kilo Lingo

#603 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

public

Examples

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The meeting is public.

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Public gardens belong to everyone.

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He read the report at a public meeting.

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The truth must be public.

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She spoke about public affairs for two hours.

Drop the adjective ending for publiko and you get the audience, the people watching, not the abstract public sphere. Add -- and i means to make public, which is the everyday verb for publishing something in a newspaper. Books tend to take instead.

The opposite in practice is , not a. Esperanto happily builds a - form for almost anything, but where a separate root already exists and is in common use, the - version reads as a beginner reaching for the machine instead of the word.

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This word is part of lesson 13.