Translation
joke, jest
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Examples
is .
His joke made everyone laugh.
, .
That is not a joke, but the truth.
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She told two old jokes.
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I said that only as a joke.
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The captain's jokes were always about the sea.
The most useful thing here is not the noun but the adverb , 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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Word family
Words built on ŝerco with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- fiŝerconoun
dirty joke, smutty joke
fi-ŝerco: a shameful joke
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 9, lesson 4: ŝerco, ege, ekrigardi and 7 more words.