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Meaning of -o | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR A2
-o

Definitions

  1. Nominal suffix. Most Esperanto nouns end in -o. (A few nouns end in -aŭ, and with some writers some feminine names end in -a.) The default vowel ending on the first element of a compound word, regardless of part of speech.
    morpheme
  2. -thing. (correlative ending.)
    morpheme

Equivalents

English -ism

Examples

“amiko (“friend”)”
“patro (“father”)”
“vorto (“word”)”
“kio (“what?, what”)”
“tio (“that”)”
“ĉio (“everything”)”
“io (“something”)”
“nenio (“nothing”)”

CEFR level

A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.

See also

-obla -oido -ologio -ologo -om -ona

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