Translation
eternal, everlasting
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Examples
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Nothing on earth is eternal.
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He promised her eternal love.
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The eternal question remains without an answer.
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They believed in eternal life.
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That eternal noise is tormenting me.
The hyperbolic use in the last example works exactly as it does in English: the noise is not literally everlasting, it has simply been going on long enough to feel that way. That kind of overstatement travels between languages more reliably than most idioms.
is the adverb and o the abstract noun. Resist building a; for the opposite, Esperanto reaches for a (fleeting) or nedaŭra (not lasting). The - machine is powerful, but it produces a word nobody uses when a better one already exists.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 2: eterna, spiri, gasto and 6 more words.