How to use adjectives in Esperanto

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Esperanto adjectives

Adjectives are generally used to describe nouns. Adjectives come before the noun in Esperanto as in English. Adjectives in Esperanto agree with the noun they describe. This means that adjectives that describe a feminine noun have a special form.

Examples

la nova pordo

the new door

la malgranda pordo

the small door

la malnova pordo

the old door

la granda pordo

the big door

la verda pordo

the green door

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Step 7 : Adjectives in Esperanto

Adjectives are used to describe nouns. To get started, we suggest you learn the three Esperanto adjectives granda, malgranda and malnova (big, small, old). Using the nouns libro, seĝo and pordo (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use each adjective with each noun (the big book, the old chair, the small door). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Esperanto adjectives including useful examples. After you've learned to use the adjectives granda, malgranda and malnova with the nouns libro, seĝo and pordo you can move on to Step 8 (Esperanto Verbs).

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