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Translation

town; city

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Examples

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I live in a small town.

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We went into the town.

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The whole town knows his name.

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She works in the town and lives next to it.

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We will return to the town.

The first two examples are the accusative rule in a single pair: is where you are, is where you are going, and the only difference is the -n. Learners drop it constantly and end up saying they went about inside the town. From the root: urban, o a townsperson with -an-, a capital, a suburb.

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Word family

Words built on urbo with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.

  • antaŭurbonoun

    suburb

    antaŭurbo

  • ĉefurbonoun

    capital city

    ĉefaurbo

  • urbanonoun

    city-dweller, townsperson

    urbo-an-: an inhabitant of a town

  • urbegonoun

    big city, metropolis

    urbo-eg-: a large town

  • urbestronoun

    mayor

    urbo-estr-: the head of a town

  • urbetonoun

    small town, little town

    urbo-et-

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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 13: urbo, terura, malgranda and 7 more words.