Translation
to sleep
Examples
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The child is sleeping in his bed.
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I could not sleep the whole night.
profunde .
He slept deeply and did not hear us.
bone ?
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 endormiĝi, the - marking the moment it starts. Duration takes the accusative without a preposition, as in . The root gives dormo for sleep itself, a for sleepy and dormĉambro for a bedroom. English "sleep in" has no one-word match; says it plainly enough.
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