Kilo Lingo

#844 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to bend, to bow, to tilt

Examples

silentis.

He bowed his head and was silent.

as .

The trees bend under the wind.

is .

She leaned over the book.

, .

Do not tilt the table, the wine will fall.

.

The old man bent down towards the child.

is transitive: you bend or tilt something. To bend yourself, use i or sin - as, the tree leans. English hides this distinction behind one verb, so the mistake is writing when you mean is. The root also gives klino for a slope or inclination and is not related, despite looking as if it should be. Note that the metaphorical English sense of being inclined to do something is emi in Esperanto, not .

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This word is part of lesson 17.