Translation
to stop, to cease
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Examples
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The rain stopped an hour ago.
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He stopped speaking and looked at me.
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The noise in the street does not stop.
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Stop shouting, please!
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The war will cease one day.
is intransitive, and that catches English speakers constantly. The thing that stops is the subject: , not something stopping the rain. To stop something else you need the causative: i . Followed by an infinitive it means to leave off doing: . Keep it apart from , which is a body or a vehicle coming to a standstill, and from , which is transitive and means you finished the job rather than merely quit it. gives you incessantly, and it is everywhere in the literature.
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Word family
Words built on ĉesi with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- senĉeseadverb
incessantly, ceaselessly, without stopping
senĉesi
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 6, lesson 9: ĉesi, bordo, ĉefa and 5 more words.