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Translation

staircase, stairs

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Examples

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She went up the staircase.

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The staircase was long and dark.

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He fell down the stairs.

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We waited by the staircase.

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The cat slept on the stairs.

This is -- doing what it always does: is one step, and the collective suffix gathers the steps into the thing they add up to, exactly as becomes and becomes . Once you see the pattern, half the vocabulary stops needing to be memorised. Note that is singular where English insists on plural stairs, so any adjective agreeing with it stays singular too, and covers both "on the staircase" and "on the stairs". o is the ladder, a little staircase you can carry.

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This word is taught in chapter 8, lesson 4: ŝtuparo, vigla, dometo and 7 more words.