Kilo Lingo

#874 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to convince, to persuade

Examples

o.

He convinced me of his rightness.

.

She could not convince her father.

.

Your words convinced everyone in the room.

is, .

I became convinced that he told the truth.

konvinka .

That is a convincing argument.

The person convinced is the object; what you convince them of takes , or a clause: , , . To become convinced yourself is i, which saves you the clumsy passive. Konvinka means convincing, konvinko a conviction in the sense of a firmly held belief - not the legal sense, which is kondamno. If what you want is persuading somebody to do something rather than to believe something, is the sharper verb.

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This word is part of lesson 18.