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#892 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

fellow Esperantist, like-minded friend

Examples

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Dear fellow Esperantists, I greet you!

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He met many fellow Esperantists at the congress.

Hispanio .

My fellow Esperantist from Spain wrote a long letter.

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She is a loyal fellow Esperantist and a good friend.

kunvenis .

The fellow Esperantists gathered in the same room.

Pull it apart and it is sam--, a member of the same idea. It is a movement word rather than a general one: outside Esperanto circles nobody says it, and inside them it has served for over a century as the standard form of address at congresses and in letters. is the neutral term for someone who speaks the language; adds the warmth and the shared cause, so it carries a faint whiff of the old idealism. Use it in a speech, not in a shop.

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This word is part of lesson 18.