Translation
grave, tomb
Examples
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They stood at their father's grave.
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Flowers grow on the old grave.
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He carried the secret to the grave.
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The graves lie among the trees.
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On the stone above the grave stood only a name.
A is the single grave. The cemetery is o, with the place suffix, and that is usually the word learners actually want when they reach for this one. Tomboŝtono is the headstone. Like , it is here because the nineteenth-century literary corpus that trained these frequency lists is fond of graveyards; you will read it far more often than you will say it.
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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 15.