Translation
to wish; to desire
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Examples
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I wish you a good day.
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What do you wish?
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She only wished to stay.
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We wish you to come back.
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He has only one wish.
is a shade more formal and less blunt than . Its important trick is what happens after : a wish is not a fact, so the verb in the clause takes the volitive -u, , , never . That same -u follows , and . is the full form the greeting was clipped from.
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Word family
Words built on deziri with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- bondezironoun
a good wish; greetings, best wishes
bonadeziri
- dezirindaadjective
desirable
deziri-ind-: worthy of being wished for
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deziri: worksheet, infographic and listicle
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 6: deziri, patro, iu and 11 more words.