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#631 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to bless

Examples

, .

God bless you, my son.

.

The priest blessed the parents.

, .

She blessed the day she came here.

morto.

The old man blessed his sons before death.

.

We are blessed with good weather.

is worth taking apart, because the -u is doing real work. It is the volitive, the form for wishing and commanding, and it is how Esperanto expresses everything English handles with may or let: , , . There is no separate subjunctive to learn.

- gives , to curse, which sits at rank 707 on this list; the pair travels together in the literature. Beno is a blessing, and describes the person or thing blessed.

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This word is part of lesson 13.