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iam

Etymology

From

Pronunciation

• Audio

  ( file https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:Eo-iam.ogg )

• IPA
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet
  (
  key
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Esperanto_pronunciation
  ): /ˈiam/
• Hyphenation: i‧am
• Rhymes:
  -iam

Adverb

iam

1. sometime
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sometime
   ,
   ever
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ever
   (indeterminate correlative of time)
2. once
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/once
   • 2000, Antoine de Saint Exupéry,
     La Eta Princo
     http://i-espero.info/files/elibroj/eo%20-%20saint-exupery,%20antoine%20de%20-%20la%20eta%20princo.pdf
     , translated by Pierre Delaire from the French

     Iam, kiam mi estis sesjara, mi vidis belegan bildon en iu libro pri la praarbaro, titolita "Travivitaj rakontoj".

     Once, when I was six years old, I saw a magnificent picture in a book about the primeval forest, titled "True Stories".

Derived terms

• iam ajn
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iam_ajn#Esperanto
  (“
  anytime
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anytime
  ”)
• iama
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iama#Esperanto