esperi
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Catalan
[edit]Verb
[edit]esperi
- inflection of esperar:
Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French espérer and Spanish esperar, from Latin spērō; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (“to prosper, succeed”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]esperi (present esperas, past esperis, future esperos, conditional esperus, volitive esperu)
- (transitive, intransitive) to hope
- 1907, Henri Vallienne, Kastelo de Prelongo, ch. 1:
- Mi esperas, ke li ne preterlasis la vagonaron.
- I hope he didn't miss the train.
- 1910, L. L. Zamenhof (translator), Marta, Paris: Librairie Hachette, translation of original by Eliza Orzeszkowa, page 67:
- Mi esperas, ke mi mem min helpos.
- I hope I can help myself.
- (Can we date this quote?), Donald J. Harlow (translator), Fiereco kaj antaŭjuĝemo[1], translation of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, archived from the original on 2 March 2012, chapter 34:
- Ĉu vi supozus, ke mi ĝojos pri la malnobleco de viaj parencoj? — gratulos min, ke mi esperas parencojn, kies vivkondiĉoj estas tiom definitive sub la miaj?
- Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connexions? — to congratulate myself on the hope of relations, whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?
- Antonym: malesperi
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of esperi
present | past | future | |||||
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singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
tense | esperas | esperis | esperos | ||||
active participle | esperanta | esperantaj | esperinta | esperintaj | esperonta | esperontaj | |
acc. | esperantan | esperantajn | esperintan | esperintajn | esperontan | esperontajn | |
passive participle | esperata | esperataj | esperita | esperitaj | esperota | esperotaj | |
acc. | esperatan | esperatajn | esperitan | esperitajn | esperotan | esperotajn | |
nominal active participle | esperanto | esperantoj | esperinto | esperintoj | esperonto | esperontoj | |
acc. | esperanton | esperantojn | esperinton | esperintojn | esperonton | esperontojn | |
nominal passive participle | esperato | esperatoj | esperito | esperitoj | esperoto | esperotoj | |
acc. | esperaton | esperatojn | esperiton | esperitojn | esperoton | esperotojn | |
adverbial active participle | esperante | esperinte | esperonte | ||||
adverbial passive participle | esperate | esperite | esperote |
infinitive | esperi | imperative | esperu | conditional | esperus |
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