Translation
skilful, clever, deft
Examples
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She is a very skilful doctor.
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With deft fingers he opened the door.
ludo.
The boy is good at that game.
Lerte .
Deftly he caught the stone.
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We need more skilful teachers.
is skill in the hands or in the handling of a situation, not raw brainpower, which is , nor wisdom, which is . Beginners often assume it is built from , since the two look like cousins, but lert- and lern- are separate roots and neither derives from the other. a is clumsy and gets plenty of use, while o names the skill itself. What you are good at takes or .
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