Translation
joke, jest
Examples
is .
His joke made everyone laugh.
, .
That is not a joke, but the truth.
.
She told two old jokes.
ŝerce.
I said that only as a joke.
.
The captain's jokes were always about the sea.
The most useful thing here is not the noun but the adverb ŝerce, jokingly, which does the work of the whole English phrase "as a joke". Esperanto reaches for a single adverb where English builds a prepositional phrase, and getting comfortable with that is half of sounding natural. The verb is intransitive and takes . Note the hat on the first letter: ŝ is the "sh" sound, so this is SHER-tso, with the c again pronounced "ts". Written in the x-system it is sxerco.
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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 17.