Translation
topic, subject, theme
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Which topic do you want to speak about?
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The topic of the book is the war.
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We changed the subject and laughed.
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That is an important topic for all of us.
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He wrote a long article about that topic.
The useful thing here is the verb. means to be about, and it takes the work as its subject rather than the reader: . English has no neat equivalent, so learners reach for clumsy circumlocutions when one verb would do. Note also that is the content of a discussion, while is a matter or piece of business you have to deal with. They overlap in translation but not in feel, and choosing when you mean the subject of a talk sounds oddly bureaucratic.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 6, lesson 9: temo, bordo, ĉefa and 5 more words.