Translation
pitiable, pitiful; poor, wretched
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Examples
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The poor child cried.
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She looked very pitiable.
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Poor animals live in the cold.
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I saw a pitiful old man by the door.
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The poor man lost everything.
Read it as built, kompat- plus --: worthy of pity. That construction is the whole trick of --, which turns the object of a feeling into an adjective, so a is believable and a is loveable. English "poor" is the trap here, because it does two unrelated jobs. is the one about money; is the one about deserving sympathy. "The poor child" in the sense of pity is , never unless the child genuinely has no money.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 8, lesson 3: kompatinda, favoro, peko and 7 more words.