Translation
firm, steady, solid
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Examples
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He has a firm hand.
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Her voice was firm and clear.
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The table stands firmly on the floor.
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We made a firm decision on the matter.
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The wood is not solid enough for that.
Here is the trap. is the adjective, meaning steady or solid; a business firm is firmao, a separate root with an extra syllable. They look near enough identical that English speakers merge them, and then write about a solid company when they meant a company at all. Otherwise behaves as you would expect and stretches to abstractions happily: a , a , a o. i means to make something firm, and o names the quality itself.
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Word family
Words built on firma with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- malfirmaadjective
unsteady, shaky, loose
mal-firma: the opposite of firm
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 6, lesson 12: firma, malgraŭ, rabisto and 7 more words.