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Translation

public

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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 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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Word family

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

  • publikigiverb

    to publish, to make public

    publika-ig-: to make public

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This word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 1: publika, paco, finiĝi and 7 more words.