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Prefixes and Suffixes in Esperanto

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In today's lesson you will learn some useful vocabulary about ¨PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES¨ in Esperanto.

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Some words for Prefixes and Suffixes in Esperanto

Prefixes

ENGLISH	PRONUNCIATION ENGLISH	ESPERANTO	PRONUNCIATION BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE	BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE
relative to marriage	boh	bo-	bo	relativo ao casamento
to disperse	dihs	dis-	dis	dispersar
to start	ehk	ek-	ek	iniciar
former	ehks	eks-	eks	antigo
dirty	fih	fi-	fi	sujo
of both gender	geh	ge-	gue	de ambos os sexos
opposite	mahl	mal-	maL	oposto
wrong	mihs	mis-	mis	errado
of remote relation	prahs	pra-	pra	relação remota
again	reh	re-	re	novamente

Suffixes

ENGLISH	PRONUNCIATION ENGLISH	ESPERANTO	PRONUNCIATION BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE	BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE
awful	ah chih	-aĉ-	a tchi	horrível
continuous, habitual or repeated action	ahd	-ad-	ad	ação contínua, habitual ou repetida
thing, material	ah zhih	-aĵ-	aji	coisa, material
member, inhabitant	ahn	-an-	an	membro, habitante
collection of same things	ahr	-ar-	ar	coleção das mesmas coisas
affection to male	chih	-ĉj-	tchi	afeto ao homem
possibility	ehbl	-ebl-	ebl	possibilidade
quailty or state	eh tsih	-ec-	ets	qualidade ou estado
big	eh gih	-eg-	egui	grande
place	ay	-ej-	ei	lugar
inclination	ehm	-em-	em	inclinação
must to be done	ehnd	-end-	end	deve ser feito
element	ehr	-er-	er	elemento
leader	ehs trih	-estr-	estr	líder
little	eht	-et-	et	pouco
offspring	ihd	-id-	id	descendência
cause	ih gih	-ig-	i gui	causa
become	ih jih	-iĝ-	i dji	tornar-se
relative tool	ihl	-il-	ihL	ferramenta relativa
female	ihn	-in-	ihn	fêmea
worthy	ihnd	-ind-	ihnd	digno
holder	in gih	-ing-	ihn gih	suporte
theory	ihsm	-ism-	ism	teoria
profession	ihst	-ist-	ist	profissão
affection to female	nih	-nj-	ni	carinho feminino
multiple	ohbl	-obl-	obl	múltiplo
fraction	ohn	-on-	on	fração
collective numeral	ohp	-op-	op	numeral coletivo
container, tree, country	ou ih	-uj-	ui	recipiente, árvore, país
individual	oul	-ul-	uL	Individual
(none, defined by context)	oom	-um-	um	(nenhum, definido pelo contexto)

Prefix	Meaning
bo-	relative to marrige
dis-	to disperse
ek-	to start
eks-	former
fi-	dirty
ge-	of both gender
mal-	opposite
mis-	wrong
pra-	of remote relation
re-	again

Suffix	Meaning
-aĉ-	awful
-ad-	continuous, habitual or repeated action
-aĵ-	thing, material
-an-	member, inhabitant
-ar-	collection of same things
-ĉj-	affection to male
-ebl-	possibility
-ec-	quailty or state
-eg-	big
-ej-	place
-em-	inclination
-end-	must to be done
-er-	element
-estr-	leader
-et-	little
-id-	offspring
-ig-	cause
-iĝ-	become
-il-	relative tool
-in-	female
-ind-	worthy
-ing-	holder
-ism-	theory
-ist-	profession
-nj-	affection to female
-obl-	multiple
-on-	fraction
-op-	collective numeral
-uj-	container, tree, country
-ul-	individual
-um-	(none, defined by context)

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