Kilo Lingo

#321 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to cause, bring about

Examples

?

What caused the mistake?

.

The rain causes him great pain.

.

Your silence will cause problems.

.

That caused great joy in the house.

on.

We do not want to cause unhappiness.

is transitive and takes the effect as its object: the thing caused goes in the accusative, and the person it lands on takes . So , not the other way round. The noun kaŭzo is the cause itself, and pro is its everyday preposition: pro says because of the rain without any verb at all. Do not confuse it with , which makes someone do something rather than bringing a situation about.

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This word is part of lesson 7.