Translation
important; serious, grave
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Examples
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That is a very important matter.
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He has an important task.
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The question is not important.
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She said something important about the congress.
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It is important that you come tomorrow.
Learn the verb alongside the adjective, because is used constantly: is the everyday "never mind, it does not matter", and ? is "what does it matter?". The rest of the family is predictable, with o for importance and a for trivial. One false friend to sidestep: English "grave" as a noun, the hole in the ground, is and has no connection to this root. only ever means weighty in the sense of mattering.
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Word family
Words built on grava with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- graveconoun
importance
grava-ec-: the quality of being important
- malgravaadjective
unimportant
mal-grava: the opposite of important
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 12: grava, mortigi, brako and 7 more words.