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Translation

seven

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Examples

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A week has seven days.

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Seven girls sang in the garden.

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He waited seven hours at the door.

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The seventh day is the quietest.

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We travelled seventy kilometres.

and differ by one letter and one place, and mishearing them is the single commonest numerical error in spoken Esperanto. The p and the s are clear enough on the page but not across a noisy congress hall, so speakers often say the number twice or hold up fingers. Everything else is regular: for seventh, for seventy, o for a seventh, e for in sevens. Duration takes the accusative without a preposition, hence rather than , though both are correct.

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Word family

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

  • sepononoun

    a seventh

    sep-on-: one of seven equal parts

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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 10: sep, anta怒, bona and 11 more words.