Translation
to endure, to withstand, to hold out
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Word origin
An Esperanto compound of el ('out') and teni ('to hold', from Latin tenere): to hold out, exactly as English builds the same idiom.
- Origin
- Esperanto compound
- Root
- el + teni
- English cognates
- tenacious
Examples
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I cannot stand that noise.
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They endured the long cold winter.
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She bore the pain without a single word.
is el plus teni, holding out to the end, and it works both with an object and without one: is to bear the pain, plain is "we will hold out". The everyday negative is Esperanto's "I can't stand it". a praises the person who endures, and neeltenebla condemns the thing that cannot be endured, most often a noise, a heat wave or a colleague.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 12, lesson 10: elteni, scivola, viando and 7 more words.