Translation
to catch a cold
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Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from mal- (the opposite of) plus varma (warm) plus -um, the suffix with no fixed meaning. Varma comes from German warm, so the whole word is a Germanic root wrapped in two Esperanto affixes.
- Origin
- Esperanto affixation on German warm
- Root
- mal- + varma + -um
- English cognates
- warm
Examples
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If you do not wear a coat, you will catch a cold.
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I caught a cold in the winter.
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He stayed in bed because he had caught a cold.
The -um here is doing the thing the -um article warns you about: it is not derivable. does not mean to be cold, or to make something cold - it means to come down with a cold, the illness. Hold it apart from its neighbours: is to cool something down, is to grow cold, is simply to be cold to the touch. The noun is , a cold, and describes the sniffly state. English hides the same ambiguity behind one word, so the Esperanto set is arguably clearer once you have learned it.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 16, lesson 10: malvarmumi, fiasko, insekto and 7 more words.