Translation
hard, firm
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Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from mal- ('the opposite of') and mola ('soft'). Mola itself is from Latin mollis, so the hard word is the soft one turned inside out.
- Origin
- Esperanto formation on a Latin root
- Root
- mal- + mola
- English cognates
- mollify, emollient, mollusc
Examples
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The bread is hard and dry.
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The stone is hard, but the earth is soft.
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He slept on a hard bed.
A real seam this time, and a good example of how Esperanto saves you a word: there is no separate root for hard, only with - in front of it. See mola for the base.
The trap is English. "Hard" does double duty for us, covering both a hard stone and a hard exam, and only covers the stone. A difficult question is , a strict parent is , and a hard worker is . Keep for things you could knock on.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 19, lesson 6: malmola, indiĝeno, papilio and 6 more words.