Translation
machine
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Word origin
An international borrowing, matching French machine and German Maschine, from Latin machina, itself from Greek mekhane ('device, contrivance').
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- mekhane
- English cognates
- machine, mechanism
Examples
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The machine works day and night.
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This machine makes paper.
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The machine suddenly stopped.
Esperanto draws a line English blurs: an is a tool your hand drives, a runs on its own power. The word compounds happily, always with the machine last: lavmaŝino washes, kudromaŝino sews, skribmaŝino is the typewriter your grandmother had. Machine-like behaviour is , and describes doing something mechanically, without thought, the exact opposite of how you should conjugate your verbs.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 12, lesson 12: maŝino, murdi, odoro and 7 more words.