Kilo Lingo

#455 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

cheerful, merry, jolly

Examples

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The children were cheerful and loud.

.

He has a cheerful character.

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We spent a merry evening in the garden.

o .

Her smile was cheerful and sincere.

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Jolly music filled the drawing room.

is cheerfulness you can see from across the room; is the deeper contentment that may show no sign at all. The opposite sits in the corpus alongside , with the gloomier and the sorrier. Watch the near-miss: is to win and belongs to a different root entirely, so has no verb of its own - use gaji, and a reader will hear the wrong word.

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This word is part of lesson 10.