Pli Ju Des Bone Vi La Malpli Da

the
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/the
; used with
des
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/des#Esperanto
and either
pli
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pli#Esperanto
(“more”) or
malpli
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malpli#Esperanto
(“less”) to form the first half of a coordinated comparative.

1903, Ben Elmy, “La Lingvo de la floroj”, in The Esperantist: The Esperanto Gazette for the Spreading of the International Language, page 138,

Pronunciation

• Audio

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

• IPA
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet
  (
  key
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Esperanto_pronunciation
  ): /ju/
• Hyphenation: ju

Particle

ju

1. the
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/the
   ; used with
   des
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/des#Esperanto
   and either
   pli
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pli#Esperanto
   (“more”) or
   malpli
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malpli#Esperanto
   (“less”) to form the first half of a coordinated comparative.
   • 1903, Ben Elmy, “La Lingvo de la floroj”, in The Esperantist: The Esperanto Gazette for the Spreading of the International Language, page 138,

     Ju pli ni studas la florojn, des pli ni konstatas, ke multe da ili posedas nesuspektitajn lertecojn, kiujn apud besto ni volonte nomus instinkto aŭ еĉ prudento.

     “ The more we study the flowers, the more we establish that many of them possess unexpected abilities, which in an animal we would willingly call instinct or even foresight.”

See also

• des
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/des#Esperanto