Translation
to despair, to lose hope
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Examples
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Do not despair, dear friend!
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He despaired after the long night.
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She never despairs about the future.
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I began to despair about the whole matter.
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The mother will despair if the son does not come back.
This is with - bolted on the front, and the word is worth learning precisely because it shows how far that prefix reaches: hope becomes its exact opposite with two letters and no new root. The same stem gives you for despair the noun, for the adjective, and a for something that drives you to it. Note that it is intransitive and takes for the thing despaired of, so , never a bare accusative. The imperative is common in Esperanto's older literature, which was written by people with plenty to despair about.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 9, lesson 1: malesperi, kastelo, kapitano and 7 more words.