Translation
to distress, to grieve, to vex
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Examples
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Your words distressed the mother.
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His silence grieves me.
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Do not distress yourself over such a trifle.
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She became upset when he left.
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The bad news will distress all the friends.
is transitive: the thing that upsets you is the subject and you are the object, which is the reverse of the English habit. So , the weather distresses me, not the other way round. To make yourself the subject you need i, to become upset. The noun is grief or vexation, and describes something distressing. It sits a shade lighter than and a shade heavier than , which is mere nuisance.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 9, lesson 13: ĉagreni, samideano, laborado and 7 more words.