Translation
to sleep
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Examples
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The child is sleeping in his bed.
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I could not sleep the whole night.
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He slept deeply and did not hear us.
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Did you sleep well?
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The dog will sleep by the fire.
is intransitive: you sleep, you do not sleep anybody. To put someone to sleep is i, and to fall asleep is i or endormi臐i, the - marking the moment it starts. Duration takes the accusative without a preposition, as in . The root gives for sleep itself, a for sleepy and for a bedroom. English "sleep in" has no one-word match; says it plainly enough.
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Word family
Words built on dormi with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- dormadiverb
to sleep on, to keep sleeping
dormi-ad-: to sleep continually
- dormemaadjective
sleepy, drowsy
dormi-em-: inclined to sleep
- dormemulonoun
sleepyhead
dormi-em--ul-: a person inclined to sleep
- dormetiverb
to doze, to nap
dormi-et-: to sleep a little
- dormo膲ambronoun
bedroom
dormi膲ambro
- ekdormiverb
to fall asleep
ek-dormi: to start sleeping
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 9: dormi, amba怒, atingi and 7 more words.