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Translation

above, up, at the top; upstairs

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Examples

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The room upstairs is small.

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Above, the stars were shining.

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He looked upwards at the sky.

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We live upstairs, and they live downstairs.

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The name stands at the top of the paper.

answers "where" and answers "where to", so the accusative -n does the job English does with "up" against "upwards". Do not confuse it with super, which is a preposition and needs an object after it: super . The root also gives for upper, for the top of a thing, and for going up. mirrors the lot, which is why Esperanto never needed a separate word for downstairs.

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Word family

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

  • malsupreadverb

    below, down, downstairs

    mal-supre

  • supraĵonoun

    surface

    supre-aĵ-: the top part of something

    The meaning has moved on from the parts: learn it as a word.

  • to go up, to ascend, to climb

    supreiri

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This word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 8: supre, porti, iam and 7 more words.