Translation
to be bored
Word origin
From French ennuyer and its noun ennui, from Late Latin inodiare, to make hateful, itself from the phrase in odio, in hatred. English annoy and odious come from the same source, which is why boredom and irritation share a root.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- inodiare
- English cognates
- ennui, annoy, odious
Examples
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The children were bored during the long journey.
, pluvas.
I get bored when it rains.
teda, .
That book is so boring that I fell asleep.
is the state, not the cause: you , and the thing responsible tedas you. English blurs this with a single pair of participles, bored and boring, so the Esperanto split is worth drilling: I am bored, the book bores me. The noun enuo is boredom, and a describes anything that produces it.
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