Translation
rarely, seldom
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Examples
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He rarely speaks about himself.
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We seldom see her in the town.
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Such birds are rarely visible.
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It rarely happens that everyone agrees.
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She writes rarely, but at length.
reversed by -, and no more complicated than that. What is worth noticing is the word order: unlike English, which shoves frequency adverbs in front of the main verb and after the auxiliary, Esperanto lets sit almost anywhere in the clause without changing the meaning, so you place it where the emphasis belongs. The adjective means rare or infrequent - is a rare book. o is a rarity, the thing itself, and i is to become rare.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 9, lesson 11: malofte, mensogi, alvoki and 7 more words.