Translation
to rent, to hire
Word origin
From French louer, to rent, which goes back to Latin locare, to place or to let out. The same Latin verb sits behind English locate and location, where the sense of putting something in a place stayed literal.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- locare
- English cognates
- locate, location
Examples
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We rented a room by the sea.
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He rents a small house in the village.
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How much do you pay to hire the car?
Watch the direction of the money. is to take something on rent, so the tenant the flat; the landlord it, using the causative --. The payment itself is the luo or lupago. And do not read the French pronoun into it: French means him, while Esperanto is a verb about renting and nothing else.
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