Translation
ill, sick, unwell
Examples
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The child is ill.
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He stayed at home because he became ill.
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A sick man lay in the bed.
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The doctor visited the sick girl.
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After the long journey we all felt unwell.
This root is the standard demonstration of how Esperanto stacks affixes. is healthy, ill, o an illness, o a patient, o a hospital, i to fall ill and i to recover. Seven words, one root, no new memorisation. Note that adjectives here can also work as verbs: as is perfectly good for I am ill, and shorter than .
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