Translation
to create
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Examples
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God created the world.
Zamenhof .
Zamenhof created Esperanto.
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They created a new society in the town.
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She creates beautiful pictures out of simple paper.
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Let us create something useful for humanity.
and are one letter apart and mean opposite halves of the same story: creating brings a thing into existence, growing is what it does afterwards. Learners mix them constantly, so hear the extra sk as the sound of something already alive.
is the act of creating, o the ongoing process, the creator and o the thing created. That -- ending is worth noticing here, because it is the general way Esperanto turns any verb into the concrete result of the verb.
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Word family
Words built on krei with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- kreadonoun
creation, creating
krei-ad-: the act of creating
- kreaĵonoun
creation
krei-aĵ-: something created
- kreemaadjective
creative
krei-em-: inclined to create
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 2: krei, spiri, gasto and 6 more words.