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Free Esperanto Vocabulary List FREE ESPERANTO VOCABULARY LIST This is the supplement to the free 10 lesson Esperanto course that was provided in PDF format from http://LearnEsperanto.net This PDF was created by copying everything directly from http://esperantofre.com/eeo/EoDktA/KorKurA1.htm on October 26, 2011 for easier readability and printability than it is displayed on the website. Said website lists this as version 24 dated August 2005 and says it copied this course from http://www.ozemail.com.au/~esperanto/ec.html on October 16th, 2005. Please share freely with anyone interested in learning Esperanto. Thank you, http://LearnEsperanto.net VOCABULARY -- A -- aĉet/i to buy angul/o corner, angle adiaŭ goodbye ankaŭ also aer/o air ankoraŭ still (adv) afabl/a kind, friendly anstataŭ instead of afer/o case, affair, thing antaŭ in front of, Afrik/o Africa before agrabl/a pleasant, nice apart/a separate aĝo age apenaŭ barely, scarcely ajn -ever, any aper/i to appear akcept/i to accept apetit/o appetite akr/a sharp april/o April akv/o water apud beside al to(wards) arb/o tree al/iĝ/i to join (i) art/o art al/ven/i to arrive (i) atend/i to wait for ali/a other atest/i to testify almenaŭ at least (adv) aŭ or alt/a high, tall aŭd/i to hear am/i to love aŭgust/o August amas/o mass, crowd aŭskult/i to listen ambaŭ both aŭt/o automobile, car amik/o friend aŭtobus/o bus, coach angl/o Englishman aŭtun/o autumn, fall av/o grandfather -- B -- baldaŭ soon (adv) blu/a blue bat/i to hit, to beat bon/a good batal/i to fight bord/o border, shore, bel/a lovely, beautiful bank best/o animal bov/o cow, bull, ox bezon/i to need, brak/o arm to require bril/i to shine bicikl/o bicycle bru/i to make a noise bier/o beer brul/i to burn, to be bigami/o bigamy on fire (intr) bilard/o billiards, pool brun/a brown bildo picture, image bub/o boy, lad, brat bird/o bird bufed/o buffet blank/a white buŝ/o mouth blind/a blind butik/o shop blond/a blonde butikum/i to go (be) out shopping -- C -- cel/o target, goal ci thou (rare) cent hundred cigared/o cigarette cert/a sure, certain -- Ĉ -- ĉambr/o room ĉi (indicates ĉapel/o hat proximity) ĉar because, since ĉiel/o heaven, sky (conjuction) ĉirkaŭ approximately, ĉas/i to hunt, chase around (adv) ĉe at ĉokolad/o chocolate ĉeval/o horse ĉu (interrogative) (is it true that...) -- D -- da of (quantity) dimanĉ/o Sunday danc/i to dance dir/i to say dank/i to thank direkt/o direction daŭr/i to continue, last disk/o disk, record de of, from divers/a varied decembr/o December do therefore, so, dek ten then (conj) dekstr/a right (side) dolĉ/a sweet demand/i ask (a question) dolor/o pain de/nov/e again, once more dom/o house, building dens/a dense, thick don/i to give dent/o tooth dorm/i to sleep dev/i must, to have to du two, 2 dezir/i to wish, desire dub/i to doubt (tr.) di/o god dum while, during dik/a thick, fat -- E -- eĉ even (adv) en in edz/o husband erar/o error eĥ/o echo eskim/o Eskimo ekster outside, out of esper/i to hope ekzempl/o example esperant/o Esperanto ekzerc/i to exercise est/i to be el out of, from Eŭklid/o Euclid elekt/i to choose, Eŭrop/a European to elect -- F -- facil/a easy flank/o side fajr/o fire flav/a yellow fal/i to fall flor/o flower famili/o family flug/i to fly far/i to do, to make foj/o time, occasion fart/i to fare, to feel for far, away (adv) februar/o February forges/i to forget feliĉ/a happy form/o form fenestr/o window fort/a strong fer/o iron frap/i to hit, to strike ferm/i to close frat/o brother fest/i to celebrate fraŭl/o bachelor fil/o son fraŭl/in/o unmarried woman fin/i to finish, to end fremd/a foreign, alien (transitive) fru/a early fingr/o finger frukt/o fruit fiŝ/o fish fum/o smoke -- G -- gaj/a happy, cheerful gol/o goal (scored) gajn/i to win, acquire grand/a big, large gazet/o magazine grav/a important geografi/o geography griz/a gray glaci/o ice gust/o taste glas/o (drinking) glass gust/um/i to taste glob/o globe, sphere something (tr.) -- Ĝ -- ĝangal/o jungle ĝis until, as far as ĝarden/o garden ĝoj/i to be glad ĝi it ĝust/a correct, exact -- H -- ha! ah! (interj) hieraŭ yesterday halt/i to stop (intr) histori/o history har/o (one) hair ho! o!, oh! (interj) hav/i to have hodiaŭ today hejm/o home hom/o person hel/a bright, clear hor/o hour, time of day help/i to help hund/o dog herb/o grass -- Ĥ -- ĥor/o choir -- I -- ide/o idea instru/i to teach ili they inter among, between imag/i to imagine interes/o interest indian/o (American) interes/i to interest (tr.) indian intern/a internal, inside infan/o child ir/i to go insekt/o insect -- J -- ja indeed jen here is/are jaĥt/o yacht sometimes... jam already (adv) jes yes januar/o January juli/o July jar/o year jun/a young je (indefinite juni/o June preposition) just/a just, fair -- Ĵ -- ĵaluz/o jealousy ĵurnal/o newspaper ĵaŭd/o Thursday ĵus just (now) ĵet/i to throw -- K -- kaf/o coffee konsent/i to agree kaj and (conjunct.) konsil/i to advise Kalgari/o Calgary konstru/i to build kalkul/i to calculate, kontent/a satisfied, content to count kontraŭ against, kamp/o field, area opposite (prep) kanjon/o canyon kor/o heart kant/i to sing korespond/i to correspond, kap/o head exchange letters kapt/i to catch korp/o body kar/a dear kort/o yard, courtyard kaŝ/i to hide (trans.) kost/i to cost kat/o cat kovert/o envelope kaŭz/o cause kovr/i to cover ke that (conjunct.) kred/i to believe kelk/a some kresk/i to grow (intr.) klar/a clear kri/i to yell, to cry out klin/i to bow, to incline krom besides, to lean over (tr.) except (prep) klub/o club, group ktp and so on (abbr.) knab/o boy (kaj tiel plu) kokakol/o Coke kuir/i to cook kol/o neck kuk/o cake kolekt/i to collect (trans.) kun with (preposition) koler/i to be angry kunikl/o rabbit kolor/o color kur/i to run komenc/i to begin kuraĝ/a brave, courageous (something) (tr.) kurs/o course, komerc/i to trade, series of lessons to do business kuŝ/i to lie down kompren/i to understand kutim/o custom, habit komun/a common, general kvankam although (conj) kon/i to know kvar four, 4 konduk/i to lead kvazaŭ as if, as though kongres/o congress, (conj, adv) convention kvin five, 5 -- L -- la the (def article) liber/a free, independent labor/i to work libr/o book lac/a tired lig/o league, alliance lakt/o milk lig/i to tie, to bind land/o country, land lign/o wood larĝ/a wide limonad/o lemonade las/i to leave, to allow lingv/o language last/a last lini/o line laŭ according to, lit/o bed along (prep) loĝ/i to reside lav/i to wash (tr) lok/o place, position lecion/o lesson London/o London leg/i to read long/a long lern/i to learn lud/i to play leter/o letter lum/o light lev/i to lift lund/o Monday li he -- M -- maj/o May (month) mi I, me man/o hand mil (one) thousand manĝ/i to eat milion/o million mank/i to be lacking, milit/i to wage war to be absent minut/o minute mar/o sea, ocean mir/i to marvel, mard/o Tuesday to be amazed mark/o sign, mark moment/o moment mart/o March (month) mon/o money maten/o morning monat/o month maten/ breakfast mond/o world manĝ/o mont/o mountain mejl/o mile montr/i to show mem -self, -selves morgaŭ tomorrow membr/o member mort/i to die (intr.) memor/i to remember mov/i to move merkred/o Wednesday (something) (tr) met/i to put, to place mult/a much, a lot of mez/o middle mur/o wall mezur/i to measure (something) (tr) -- N -- naci/o nation nom/o name naĉ/i to swim nombr/o number, amount nask/i to give birth (tr) nord/a north natur/o nature nov/a new naŭ nine, 9 Nov-Jork/o New York naz/o nose novembr/o November ne no, not nu well!, now! (interj) neces/a necessary nub/o cloud neĉ/o snow nul zero nek nor, (conjunct) nul/o nil, name of the neither... nor... number zero neŭtral/a neutral, impartial nun now ni we, us nur only (adverb) nigr/a black nutraĵ/o food, nourishment nokt/o night -- O -- oft/a frequent, oni one, people, they common (indef. pronoun) ok eight, 8 onkl/o uncle okaz/i to happen, opini/i to think, to to occur have an opinion oktobr/o October ord/o order okul/o eye ordon/i to order, okup/i to occupy to command ol than (comparing) orel/o ear (conjunction) ost/o bone ond/o wave ov/o egg -- P -- pac/o peace plu further, more paf/i to shoot (adv) pag/i to pay plum/o pen pan/o bread pluv/o rain pantofl/o slipper polus/o pole (as in paper/o paper North Pole) pardon/i to forgive, popol/o people, nation to excuse por for, in order to Pariz/o Paris (prep) parol/i to speak pord/o door part/o part port/i to carry pas/i to pass post after, behind paŝ/i to step, to pace (prep) patr/o father postul/i to demand, pec/o piece, bit to require pen/i to try, poŝ/o pocket to endeavour pov/i to be able (to) pens/i to think prav/a right, correct per by (means of), precip/a main, principal with (prep) prem/i to press, to squeeze perd/i to lose pren/i to take permes/i to allow, preskaŭ almost (adverb) to permit pret/a ready person/o person preter beyond, past pet/i to ask (for), (prep) to request prezent/i to present pied/o foot pri about, concerning pilk/o ball (for playing) (prep) plaĉ/i to please, printemp/o spring to be pleasing pro by reason of, plaĝ/o beach because of (prep) plank/o floor problem/o problem plej most (adv) profund/a deep (superlative) proksim/a near, close plen/a full promen/i to take a walk plend/i to complain propr/a (one's) own plezur/o pleasure, prosper/i to prosper enjoyment prov/i to try, to test pli more (adv) pun/i to punish (comparative) punkt/o point, period plor/i to cry, to weep pur/a clean, pure -- R -- rajt/o a right rid/i to laugh rakont/i to tell, to narrate rigard/i to look (at) rapid/a quick, fast rimark/i to notice reg/i to rule, to control rimed/o means, resource renkont/i
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