Translation
somehow, in some way
Word origin
A cell of Zamenhof's correlative table: the indefinite prefix i- ('some') plus the manner ending -el. Its neighbours fill in the rest of the row: kiel ('how'), tiel ('thus, so'), ĉiel ('in every way') and neniel ('in no way').
- Origin
- Esperanto correlative system
- Root
- i- + -el
Examples
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We must somehow solve this problem.
?
Can you help me in some way?
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He somehow found the right way in the night.
The manner column of the correlative table. Where English needs a phrase like in some way or other, Esperanto packs it into one two-syllable word, and the negative ('in no way') is just a prefix swap away.
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