Translation
to hope
Examples
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I hope that you will come.
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We hope for a better world.
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She hoped to see him one more time.
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Do not hope for too much.
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He lost everything but not hope.
This is the root the language is named after. Esper- plus the present active participle -ant- plus the noun ending gives , one who is hoping, which is the pen name Zamenhof signed his 1887 booklet with. The thing hoped for takes -n ( ) or comes as a clause. is hope, espera hopeful, senespera hopeless with the - prefix.
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