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What is the word for "Foreigner" in Esperanto?

by Foreigner, May 10, 2014

Messages: 15

Language: English

Rejsi (User's profile) May 19, 2014, 3:35:53 AM

I'm with sparksbet on this. You're a foreigner in any land but your own.

fajrkapo (User's profile) May 19, 2014, 2:00:30 PM

Eksterulo

erinja (User's profile) May 19, 2014, 3:20:49 PM

I use "fremdulo" for foreigner only, not for stranger. For stranger, I use "nekonatulo".

"eksterulo" would be a different meaning, an "outsider". You could be an eksterulo if you are not a member of a certain organization, for example; a company might say in its privacy information that "eksteruloj" do not have access to their database (that is, people outside the company).

Alilandano is fine but a little unwieldy. I don't see "fremdulo" as being insulting or loaded but if someone saw it that way, they would be understood perfectly using "alilandano". I certainly consider myself a "fremdulo" anywhere outside the US, and I'd have no problem calling myself that.

sidmkz (User's profile) May 19, 2014, 4:31:26 PM

Foreigner:Can anyone help me? Google Translate says "fremdo," but I don't trust an online translator. I'm looking for a noun, "Foreigner."

Dankon.
Eksterlandano was the one that came to mind for me.

robbkvasnak (User's profile) May 19, 2014, 9:28:13 PM

In Esperantolando we call them, with a bit of humor, "krokodiloj"

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