Translation
similar, alike
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Examples
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Your house is similar to mine.
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They have very similar ideas.
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I have never seen anything similar.
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The two sisters are very alike.
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In a similar case I would do the same.
takes , not or : . Keep it apart from , which means one and the same thing rather than a matching one. is a single physical book that turns up twice; is a different book that resembles it. is a third neighbour and means equal in amount or value. The root gives the verb (to resemble), the noun o and the opposite a.
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Word family
Words built on simila with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- homsimilaadjective
humanlike, humanoid
homosimila: similar to a person
- malsimilaadjective
dissimilar, unlike
mal-simila: the opposite of similar
- simileconoun
similarity, likeness
simila-ec-: the quality of being similar
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 8: simila, porti, iam and 7 more words.