Translation
worth doing; deserving it
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Examples
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That is a wonderful idea.
a.
The book is worth reading.
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He is a pitiable old man.
, .
It is regrettable that she did not come.
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She is worthy of our respect.
-- says the thing deserves to have the root done to it. gives a, worth reading; gives a, worth seeing; gives , worth wondering at, which is how Esperanto arrives at wonderful. The result is an adjective in -a, and also stands alone, taking for what the thing is worthy of.
Watch the two commonest members, because both have drifted. and are no longer felt as worth pitying and worth regretting; they are simply pitiable and regrettable, and nobody hears the machinery any more.
Against its neighbours: means it can be seen, a means it repays the trip, a means you are obliged to go. Judgement, not capacity, is what -- adds.
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