landoj

Landoj is the Esperanto plural of lando, meaning countries or lands. The term is used to refer to geographic or political entities that are perceived as distinct regions, including sovereign states and other culturally defined areas.

In Esperanto, lando is a common noun with no gender. The noun takes the suffix -o, the plural suffix -j, and the accusative suffix -n. For example, la lando means “the country,” grandaj landoj means “large countries,” and plurajn landojn means “several countries.” Adjectives follow the noun and agree in number, as in granda lando and grandaj landoj.

Landoj is commonly used in discussions of geography, travel, history, and geopolitics. It can refer to recognized states as well as regions that are culturally or geographically defined rather than formally sovereign. When a country is the object of a sentence, the accusative form landojn is used, as in Mi vizitis plurajn landojn.

Nuances: landooften emphasizes the geographic or cultural concept of a country, whereas the Esperanto term for a political entity with sovereignty is more precisely ŝtato. In some contexts, lando can also denote land or homeland in a broader sense, not strictly a political unit. The plural landoj thus covers a range of cases from actual nation-states to broader regions identified as countries.

See also: lando, ŝtato, geografie, esperanto grammar.