Apedia

6000 Most Frequent Esperanto Words [w/ 60k+ example sents]

Besto Esperanto Accusative Plural Including Null Wikt Article

The Esperanto word 'besto' means 'animal' or 'beast'. Although it can include humans, 'animalo' is sometimes used to specifically refer to non-human animals.

The Esperanto word 'besto' translates to 'animal' or 'beast'. While it can encompass all animals, including humans, the word 'animalo' is often preferred for clarity to specifically mean any animal.

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
  • Audio
    		(
    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.

Learn with these flashcards. Click next, previous, or up to navigate to more flashcards for this subject.

Next card: Floro estas beautiful la flower bela tiu ĉi

Previous card: Ajna povas vi momento time en accusative plural

Up to card list: 6000 Most Frequent Esperanto Words [w/ 60k+ example sents]