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Longa Long Time Tio Estis Tempo Translator Malnova

The Esperanto word "longa" means "long" in terms of length and is used both as an adjective and adverb in various phrases, such as "long day" or "long time."

La vorto "longa" en Esperanto signifas "long" laŭgrade kaj estas uzata kaj kiel adjektivo kaj kiel adverbo en diversaj frazoj, kiel "longa tago" aŭ "longa tempo".

Frequency Rank of Word 184
Word longa
Meanings
    long
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/long

    1915,

    L. L. Zamenhof
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof
    (translator), Malnova Testamento, Eliro 2:23.

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Example Sentences
Wiktionary Entry and
French
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language
long
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/long#French
, from
Latin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin
longus
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/longus#Latin
.

Pronunciation

  • IPA
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet
    (
    key
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Esperanto_pronunciation
    )
    : /ˈlonɡa/
  • Hyphenation: lon‧ga
  • (
    file
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:LL-Q143_(epo)-NMaia-longa.wav
    )
  • Rhymes:
    -onɡa

Adjective

longa (accusative singular

longan
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/longan#Esperanto
, plural
longaj
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/longaj#Esperanto
, accusative plural
longajn
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/longajn#Esperanto
)

  1. long
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/long
    • 1915,
      L. L. Zamenhof
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof
      (translator), Malnova Testamento, Eliro 2:23.
      Post longa tempo mortis la reĝo de Egiptujo.
      After a long time the king of Egypt died.
    Antonym:
    mallonga
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mallonga#Esperanto

Derived terms

  • longiĝi
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/longi%C4%9Di#Esperanto
  • longtempa

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