Translation
to hire, employ
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Word origin
From German dingen ('to hire, to engage a worker'), whose old past forms dung and gedungen supplied the vowel. The German verb grew out of Ding ('assembly, court'), the word that is cognate with English thing - hiring began as striking a bargain before the assembly.
- Origin
- German
- Root
- dingen
- English cognates
- thing
Examples
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They hired ten new people for the summer.
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She hired a teacher for her children.
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They hired him because he speaks three languages.
The family does the office vocabulary in one root: an employee, an employer (or o for one who hires professionally), and i to sack someone - the - prefix undoing the hire as neatly as it undoes everything else.
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Word family
Words built on dungi with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- dungitonoun
employee
dungi-it-
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 15, lesson 8: dungi, blinda, hebrea and 7 more words.