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Translation

to make available, to place at somebody's disposal

Word origin

The root disponi comes from Latin disponere, to arrange or set out in order, from dis- (apart) plus ponere (to put). English dispose, disposal and disposition are the same word, and at your disposal preserves the Esperanto sense exactly.

Origin
Latin
Root
disponere
English cognates
dispose, disposal

Grammar

Verb typeregular (Esperanto has no irregular verbs)

Irregular verb. A full conjugation table for irregular verbs is coming soon. For now, use a reference like Wordreference or RAE.

Examples

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The town made a hall available for the meeting.

?

Can you let me have your car for one day?

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The library makes its books available to all students.

Decoding it, and the suffix is doing all the work.Disponi at rank 1,166 is to have something at your disposal - to be the one who may use it. -- is the causative: it makes you the one who brings the state about. So is to cause somebody else to have a thing at their disposal, which is what English says in five words as to make available or to place at somebody's disposal. One suffix, one word.

The family, and it is a neat demonstration of three affixes at once. you have the thing; you give somebody else the having; disponebla at rank 2,025 describes the thing that can be disposed of, which is available; and dispono is the state itself, as in dispono, at your disposal, which is how a formal Esperanto letter signs off. Four words, one root, no new vocabulary. The -- and -- machinery underneath is set out in igi and iĝi.

Against the near neighbours. Doni transfers ownership; transfers only the use, and you expect the thing back. Provizi is to supply, which implies the thing was needed and is consumed - you an expedition with food, you a room. i is the blunter cousin, to get something for somebody. In official Esperanto - congress circulars, association reports - is everywhere, because institutions lend rooms and equipment far more often than they give them away.

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This word is part of lesson 53.