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Translation

to dance

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Examples

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We danced the whole night.

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She dances very beautifully.

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Do you want to dance with me?

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The children danced around the fire.

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He had never danced in front of so many people.

Normally intransitive: you dance, full stop, and your partner joins with . Name the dance and it takes an object anyway, as in valson. The root is generous: is a dance, o a professional dancer, o the place you do it, and i means to make somebody else dance, which is as useful figuratively in Esperanto as it is in English.

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Word family

Words built on danci with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.

  • dancadiverb

    to keep dancing, to dance on

    danci-ad-: to dance continually

  • dancadonoun

    dancing

    danci-ad-: the activity of dancing

  • dancistonoun

    dancer

    danci-ist-: a person who dances by profession

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This word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 12: danci, etendi, ĉapelo and 7 more words.