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Na Preposition Accusative Suffix Introducing Phrase Article Gerda

The word 'na' is a neologism and rare preposition that introduces an accusative phrase. It is unofficial and largely disapproved by high-level speakers.

La vorto 'na' estas neologismo kaj malofta prepozicio, kiu enkondukas akuzativan frazon. Ĝi ne estas oficiala kaj plejparte ne estas aprobita de altnivelaj parolantoj.

Frequency Rank of Word 5320
Word na
Meanings
    (
    neologism
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#neologism
    ,
    rare
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#rare
    ) Preposition introducing an
    accusative
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accusative_case#English
    phrase.
Pinyin null
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Example Sentences
Wiktionary Entry (possibly a
blend
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#blend
with the article
la
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/la#Esperanto
 or with the suffix
-a
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-a#Esperanto
), or from Russian
на
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BD%D0%B0#Russian
 (na).

Pronunciation

    • IPA
      https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet
      (
      key
      https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Esperanto_pronunciation
      )      : /na/
    • Hyphenation: na
    • Audio:
      		(
      file
      https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:LL-Q143_(epo)-Robin_van_der_Vliet-na.wav
      )

Preposition

na

  1. (
    neologism
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#neologism
    ,
    rare
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#rare
    ) Preposition introducing an
    accusative
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accusative_case#English
    phrase.
    Mi legis na Gerda Malaperis .
    I read Gerda Disappeared.

Usage notes

Unofficial; it is recognized by some Esperantists on the Internet, but disapproved by most high-level speakers. Proponents recommended using it only where the accusative suffix isn't possible: with numerals (

unu
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unu#Esperanto
(“one”)), particles (
iom
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iom#Esperanto
 (“some”),
kies
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kies#Esperanto
 (“whose”)), letters (J), titles of books, and quotations, etc. More standard options are to use the general preposition
je
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/je#Esperanto
, to omit the accusative ending, or to rephrase the sentence to avoid the issue.

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