Translation
goodbye, farewell
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Examples
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Farewell, my dear friend!
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She said goodbye and left without looking back.
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Goodbye, and do not forget to write to me.
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He had no time to say farewell to the family.
adiaŭo .
The last farewell was the hardest.
is the heavy goodbye, the one that assumes you may not meet again, and it carries the weight accordingly. For ordinary partings Esperantists say or simply , which is the everyday see you and by far the commoner word at a club or a congress. Use at a station platform in a novel, not when leaving the room for five minutes. Being Esperanto, the interjection takes endings freely: is to bid farewell to someone, and adiaŭo is the farewell itself. The final ŭ is a semivowel and forms a diphthong with the a before it, so the stress lands on the i: a-DI-aŭ.
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Words built on adiaŭ with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- adiaŭiverb
to say goodbye (to), to bid farewell
adiaŭ: to say adieu
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 6, lesson 6: adiaŭ, regi, insulo and 7 more words.