Reklamo: Venu al la Universala Kongreso en 🇦🇹 Aŭstrio, 1–8 aŭg. 2026

The Suffix -an

a member of, someone belonging to:

  • klubano – club member
  • amerikano – American
  • samlandano – fellow-countryman
  • samideano – fellow-supporter of an idea (in particular, a fellow Esperantist)

The Suffix -ec

makes an abstract noun — a state or quality:

  • beleco – beauty
  • varmeco – warmth
  • simpleco – simplicity

💡 Memory aid: -ec works like English "-ness" or "-ity":

  • bela (beautiful) → beleco (beauty)

The Suffix -uj

forms the name of a container, a country or a plant:

  • manĝujo – manger, food-trough
  • cindrujo – ashtray
  • Francujo – France
  • Aŭstrujo – Austria
  • pomo (apple) → pomujo – apple tree

-ig and -iĝ again

You have now seen both endings:

  • -ig means "to make something become or happen"
  • -iĝ means "to become or change by itself"

Compare:

  • sidi – to sit / sidi – to sit down, become seated
  • nova – new / novigi – to renew, to make new

More familiar parts in compounds

The exercises also reuse familiar roots in longer words:

  • rilato + -arilata – related
  • parto + tempo + -apartatempa – part-time
  • sama + landosamlanda – from the same country
  • flanko + -eflanke – at the side