Translation
to help
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Examples
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Can you help me?
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He helped me find the house.
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We asked for help, but nobody came.
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Help yourself, and God will help you.
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She helped her mother all day.
takes either the direct accusative ( ) or ( ), and both are correct; Zamenhof used both, so pick one and stop worrying. is help, a helper with the participle -ant-, and a helpful by nature with --. Note : because the helper is the subject, -n because the mother is the object.
Where this fits
Word family
Words built on helpi with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- helpemaadjective
helpful, obliging
helpi-em-: inclined to help
- helpilonoun
aid, helping device
helpi-il-: a tool for helping
- malhelpiverb
to hinder, to prevent, to get in the way of
mal-helpi
Used in
Stories
(3)Grammar articles
(10)Esperanto -us and -u: Conditional and Imperative
Esperanto False Friends: Words That Lie to English Speakers
Gender in Esperanto: -in-, ge-, and the Reform That Waits
Esperanto Letter Writing: Register and Politeness
How to Ask Questions in Esperanto: Ĉu, Tags and Answers
The Esperanto Reflexive: si and sia vs li and lia
Esperanto Reported Speech: li diris, ke li venos
Esperanto Transitivity: Which Verbs Take an Object
Esperanto Verbs and Prepositions: Which One Each Verb Takes
Esperanto Affixes: The Full List of Prefixes and Suffixes
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 13: helpi, terura, malgranda and 7 more words.