Esperanto — top 312 words
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| # | Esperanto | English |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I — 1st-person singular | |
| 2 | you (singular & plural) | |
| 3 | he | |
| 4 | we | |
| 5 | they | |
| 6 | this | |
| 7 | that (thing) | |
| 8 | here | |
| 9 | there | |
| 10 | who; which one | |
| 11 | what | |
| 12 | where | |
| 13 | when | |
| 14 | how; as | |
| 15 | not; no | |
| 16 | all; every, each | |
| 17 | many, much | |
| 18 | some, a few | |
| 19 | few, little | |
| 20 | other | |
| 21 | one | |
| 22 | two | |
| 23 | three | |
| 24 | four | |
| 25 | five | |
| 26 | big, large | |
| 27 | long | |
| 28 | wide, broad | |
| 29 | thick | |
| 30 | heavy | |
| 31 | small, little | |
| 32 | short | |
| 33 | narrow | |
| 34 | thin | |
| 35 | woman | |
| 36 | man (male) | |
| 37 | human being, person | |
| 38 | child | |
| 39 | wife | |
| 40 | husband | |
| 41 | mother | |
| 42 | father | |
| 43 | animal | |
| 44 | fish | |
| 45 | bird | |
| 46 | dog | |
| 47 | louse | |
| 48 | snake | |
| 49 | worm | |
| 50 | tree | |
| 51 | forest | |
| 52 | stick | |
| 53 | fruit | |
| 54 | seed | |
| 55 | leaf | |
| 56 | root | |
| 57 | bark (of a tree) | |
| 58 | flower | |
| 59 | grass | |
| 60 | rope | |
| 61 | skin | |
| 62 | meat | |
| 63 | blood | |
| 64 | bone | |
| 65 | fat (noun) | |
| 66 | egg | |
| 67 | horn | |
| 68 | tail | |
| 69 | feather | |
| 70 | hair | |
| 71 | head | |
| 72 | ear | |
| 73 | eye | |
| 74 | nose | |
| 75 | mouth | |
| 76 | tooth | |
| 77 | tongue | |
| 78 | fingernail | |
| 79 | foot | |
| 80 | leg | |
| 81 | knee | |
| 82 | hand | |
| 83 | wing | |
| 84 | belly | |
| 85 | guts, intestines | |
| 86 | neck | |
| 87 | back | |
| 88 | breast, chest | |
| 89 | heart | |
| 90 | liver | |
| 91 | to drink | |
| 92 | to eat | |
| 93 | to bite | |
| 94 | to suck | |
| 95 | to spit | |
| 96 | to vomit | |
| 97 | to blow | |
| 98 | to breathe | |
| 99 | to laugh | |
| 100 | to see | |
| 101 | to hear | |
| 102 | to know (a fact) | |
| 103 | to think | |
| 104 | to smell | |
| 105 | to fear | |
| 106 | to sleep | |
| 107 | to live | |
| 108 | to die | |
| 109 | to kill | |
| 110 | to fight | |
| 111 | to hunt | |
| 112 | to hit, strike | |
| 113 | to cut | |
| 114 | to split, divide | |
| 115 | to stab | |
| 116 | to scratch | |
| 117 | to dig | |
| 118 | to swim | |
| 119 | to fly | |
| 120 | to walk | |
| 121 | to come | |
| 122 | to lie (as in a bed) | |
| 123 | to sit | |
| 124 | to stand | |
| 125 | to turn (intransitive) | |
| 126 | to fall | |
| 127 | to give | |
| 128 | to hold | |
| 129 | to squeeze | |
| 130 | to rub | |
| 131 | to wash | |
| 132 | to wipe | |
| 133 | to pull | |
| 134 | to push | |
| 135 | to throw | |
| 136 | to tie, bind | |
| 137 | to sew | |
| 138 | to count, calculate | |
| 139 | to say | |
| 140 | to sing | |
| 141 | to play | |
| 142 | to float | |
| 143 | to flow | |
| 144 | to freeze | |
| 145 | to swell | |
| 146 | sun | |
| 147 | moon | |
| 148 | star | |
| 149 | water | |
| 150 | rain | |
| 151 | river | |
| 152 | lake | |
| 153 | sea | |
| 154 | salt | |
| 155 | stone | |
| 156 | sand | |
| 157 | dust | |
| 158 | earth; ground | |
| 159 | cloud | |
| 160 | fog | |
| 161 | sky; heaven | |
| 162 | wind | |
| 163 | snow | |
| 164 | ice | |
| 165 | smoke | |
| 166 | fire | |
| 167 | ash | |
| 168 | to burn | |
| 169 | road, way | |
| 170 | mountain | |
| 171 | red | |
| 172 | green | |
| 173 | yellow | |
| 174 | white | |
| 175 | black | |
| 176 | night | |
| 177 | day | |
| 178 | year | |
| 179 | warm | |
| 180 | cold | |
| 181 | full | |
| 182 | new | |
| 183 | old | |
| 184 | good | |
| 185 | bad | |
| 186 | rotten | |
| 187 | dirty | |
| 188 | straight | |
| 189 | round | |
| 190 | sharp (as a knife) | |
| 191 | dull, blunt | |
| 192 | smooth | |
| 193 | wet | |
| 194 | dry | |
| 195 | correct, right | |
| 196 | near, close | |
| 197 | far | |
| 198 | right (side) | |
| 199 | left (side) | |
| 200 | at | |
| 201 | in, inside | |
| 202 | with (accompaniment) | |
| 203 | and | |
| 204 | if | |
| 205 | because | |
| 206 | name | |
| 207 | zero | |
| 208 | six | |
| 209 | seven | |
| 210 | eight | |
| 211 | nine | |
| 212 | ten | |
| 213 | twenty | |
| 214 | hundred | |
| 215 | thousand | |
| 216 | million | |
| 217 | first | |
| 218 | second | |
| 219 | third | |
| 220 | she | |
| 221 | it | |
| 222 | -self (reflexive pronoun) | |
| 223 | one, people (indefinite) | |
| 224 | my | |
| 225 | your | |
| 226 | his | |
| 227 | her | |
| 228 | its | |
| 229 | our | |
| 230 | their | |
| 231 | one's own (reflexive possessive) | |
| 232 | something | |
| 233 | everything | |
| 234 | nothing | |
| 235 | someone | |
| 236 | no one, none | |
| 237 | somewhere | |
| 238 | everywhere | |
| 239 | nowhere | |
| 240 | sometime, ever | |
| 241 | always | |
| 242 | never | |
| 243 | then | |
| 244 | thus, so | |
| 245 | why | |
| 246 | therefore | |
| 247 | how much, how many | |
| 248 | that much | |
| 249 | whose | |
| 250 | on, upon | |
| 251 | under | |
| 252 | to, toward | |
| 253 | of, from, by | |
| 254 | out of | |
| 255 | for, in order to | |
| 256 | about, concerning | |
| 257 | by means of | |
| 258 | through | |
| 259 | before, in front of | |
| 260 | after, behind | |
| 261 | during, while | |
| 262 | between, among | |
| 263 | against, opposite | |
| 264 | according to, along | |
| 265 | without | |
| 266 | until, up to | |
| 267 | next to, beside | |
| 268 | (catch-all preposition) | |
| 269 | to be | |
| 270 | to have | |
| 271 | to do, make | |
| 272 | to go | |
| 273 | to speak, talk | |
| 274 | to read | |
| 275 | to write | |
| 276 | to learn | |
| 277 | to want, wish | |
| 278 | to be able, can | |
| 279 | to have to, must | |
| 280 | to love | |
| 281 | the (definite article) | |
| 282 | (yes/no question particle) | |
| 283 | that (conjunction) | |
| 284 | but | |
| 285 | or | |
| 286 | also, too | |
| 287 | very | |
| 288 | now | |
| 289 | already | |
| 290 | hello | |
| 291 | thank you | |
| 292 | please | |
| 293 | yes | |
| 294 | today | |
| 295 | tomorrow | |
| 296 | yesterday | |
| 297 | language | |
| 298 | book | |
| 299 | house | |
| 300 | city, town | |
| 301 | country | |
| 302 | world | |
| 303 | friend | |
| 304 | time | |
| 305 | morning | |
| 306 | evening | |
| 307 | money | |
| 308 | work | |
| 309 | school | |
| 310 | family | |
| 311 | brother | |
| 312 | sister |