Meaning of -a | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Related to, in the manner of, of. Ending for all adjectives in Esperanto.
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2. Belonging to, of. Ending for all possessive pronouns in Esperanto.
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3. Used to form the ordinal numeral.
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4. -kind of. Ending of all correlatives of kind in Esperanto.
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Equivalents

Examples

“belo (“beauty”) + -a → bela (“beautiful”)”

“dekstro (“the right direction”) (as opposed to left) + -a → dekstra (“to the right”)”

“vero (“truth”) + -a → vera (“true”)”

“mi (“I; me”) + -a → mia (“of me, my”)”

“vi (“you”) + -a → via (“of you, your”)”

“ili (“they; them”) + -a → ilia (“of them, their”)”

“unu (“one”) + -a → unua (“first”)”

“du (“two”) + -a → dua (“second”)”

“dek tri (“thirteen”) + -a → dek-tria (“thirteenth”)”

“cent (“hundred”) + -a → centa (“hundredth”)”

“ki- + -a → kia (“what kind of”)”

“ti- + -a → tia (“that kind of”)”

“neni- + -a → nenia (“no kind of”)”

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