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Besto Esperanto Accusative Plural Including Null Wikt Article

Frequency Rank of Word 734
Word besto
Meanings
    animal
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animal

    nonhuman
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonhuman
    animal
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animal

    beast
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beast

Pinyin null
Buttons
Example Sentences
Wiktionary Entry
Bestie
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bestie#German
,
Italian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language
bestia
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bestia#Italian
,
Latin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin
bestia
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bestia#Latin
.

Pronunciation

  • IPA
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet
    (
    key
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Esperanto_pronunciation
    )
    : /ˈbesto/
  • Hyphenation: bes‧to
  • Rhymes:
    -esto
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:Esperanto/esto
  • (
    file
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:Eo-besto.ogg
    )

Noun

besto (accusative singular

beston
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beston#Esperanto
, plural
bestoj
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bestoj#Esperanto
, accusative plural
bestojn
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bestojn#Esperanto
)

  1. animal
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animal
    Synonym:
    animalo
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animalo#Esperanto
  2. nonhuman
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonhuman
    animal
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animal
  3. beast
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beast

Usage notes

Since the very beginning of Esperanto, besto has meant any member of the

animal kingdom
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animal_kingdom
, including
humans
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/humans
. However, because many Esperanto speakers interpret it as meaning "non-human animal",
animalo
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animalo#Esperanto
was coined to explicitly mean any animal including humans.


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