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In order to add emphasis an Esperanto root may sometimes be doubled before the addition of the ending:
| fine = at last | finfine = at long last |
| bela = beautiful | belbela = gorgeous |
| laŭta = loud | laŭtlaŭta = damnably loud |
| dika = fat | dikdika = obese |
| vere = truly | ververe = really and truly |
| foje = once, sometimes | fojfoje = once in a great while |
| plena = full | plenplena = very full |
| sola = alone | solsola = all alone |
Although commonly used reduplications are not conspicuous, new ones created on the fly tend to sound vaguely jocular, so for a beginner they should perhaps be used only after they have been heard.