Translation
to sing
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Examples
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The birds are singing in the forest.
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She sang a beautiful song for the children.
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Let us sing together!
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He sang in a loud voice.
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Tomorrow they will sing in the church.
works both ways: intransitive when birds do it, transitive when you sing an actual song. The root hands you for the song itself, for a singer by trade, and o for singing as an ongoing activity, which is the distinction -ad- exists to make. Esperanto culture leans on this word more than most languages do, since every congress opens by singing , the movement's anthem, and knowing what the verb means beats mouthing along.
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Word family
Words built on kanti with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- birdokantonoun
birdsong
birdokanti: the singing of birds
- kantadiverb
to keep singing, to sing on
kanti-ad-: to sing continually
- kantadonoun
singing
kanti-ad-: the activity of singing
- kantistonoun
singer
kanti-ist-
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 12: kanti, mortigi, brako and 7 more words.