How to Use Esperanto in a Sentence

Esperanto

noun
  • Esperanto has deep roots in Africa.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • Esperanto is the language for us!
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • The woman had heard of Esperanto, but knew nothing about it beyond the name.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • But Esperanto must nevertheless keep up with the times.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • Though Esperanto would never again occupy the mainstream, the movement refused to die.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • Her vase-drawings, inspired by ancient frescoes and pop culture, echo the brand’s signature Esperanto line.
    — Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • But Esperanto was once a legitimate force in global politics.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • Esperanto is indeed pretty simple.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • This rigid, top-down process can seem incongruous with Esperanto’s democratic principles.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • But Esperanto’s political roots eventually caught up to it.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • In Mein Kampf, Hitler cast Esperanto as a Jewish conspiracy.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • Esperanto boosters like to boast that about 95 percent of the language can be understood by knowing fewer than five hundred common plug-and-play roots and affixes.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • And most of today’s Esperanto adherents are neither naïve nor even particularly batty.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • Other lighthearted events—like a soccer match that pitted young Esperanto speakers against a Brno club team, and an excursion to a local winery—were buzzing as well.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • The Chinese government, which once promoted Esperanto heartily, still makes an appearance at each year’s congress.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • In the shadow of the war to end all wars, people desperately hoped that the human race would never again tolerate such fevered violence, and Esperanto grew hand in hand with the pacifist movement.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • International volunteers didn’t share a language, either, and Esperanto was relatively quick and easy to learn.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • By the late Twenties, there were more than forty regular Esperanto radio shows, ranging from language instruction to national news, broadcast from well over a dozen countries.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • The academy then takes these requests under advisement and, very occasionally, updates the Esperanto dictionary.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • Another reported that the host kept a copy of a book titled Teach Yourself Esperanto behind the bar, and that even the pub’s landlord had enrolled in Esperanto night classes.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • The Cuaróns’ Esperanto Filmoj found financiers for the project in what was a 40-day shoot, with Mexico standing in for New York City.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Slopaganda has quickly become our new Esperanto of international conflict.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Almost immediately, early enthusiasts began to refer to the language as Esperanto.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • The Nazis would go on to ban the instruction of Esperanto in schools, dissolve all Esperantist organizations, and murder all three of Zamenhof’s children.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • By the early Nineties, there were enough speakers to hold the first pan-African Esperanto Congress, for which adherents flocked to Togo from surrounding West African nations.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • Baláž’s portrayal of Esperanto as a nontransactional, humanistic alternative to industry-specific language crash courses and tourist-friendly pocket guides appealed to me.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • There are online classes in Esperanto, subreddits in Esperanto, and Esperantist YouTubers.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • The Vatican authorized Esperanto for liturgical use decades ago, and Radio Vaticana still publishes news and papal updates in Esperanto online three times a week.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • In 1937, Stalin, himself a former dabbler in the language, reversed course on Esperanto and herded its speakers into gulags on account of its internationalist appeal.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • One of the Esperanto Naturist Organization’s leaders was a sprightly Frenchman named Thierry Spanjaard.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026

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