Translation
to wait, to wait for; to expect
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Examples
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I waited for you for two hours.
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She is waiting for a letter from her son.
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Let us wait until tomorrow.
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He did not expect that she would come.
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The boy waited for his father at the door.
is transitive and swallows its object whole: , never . The English "for" has no business here, and it is the single most common slip English speakers make with this verb. The same word covers expecting - - so context does the sorting. Useful derivatives are (a wait), o (a waiting room) and neatendita (unexpected), which turns up constantly in narrative prose.
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Word family
Words built on atendi with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- atendejonoun
waiting room
atendi-ej-: a place for waiting
Used in
Stories
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 1: atendi, eniri, vojo and 7 more words.