Translation
to lie, to tell lies
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Examples
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You are lying, and I know it.
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He lied to his mother.
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She never lied about her age.
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The lie was too big to believe.
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Better tell the truth than lie.
Esperanto is kinder than English here: is only ever the untruth. To lie down is , a completely different root, so the English pun about lying and lying does not survive translation. The person lied to takes , the subject matter takes . is a lie, o a liar, false or lying as an adjective. Note that a means untrue in the neutral sense - a wrong answer is a or a, not , because a lie requires the intention to deceive.
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Word family
Words built on mensogi with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- mensogulonoun
liar
mensogi-ul-: a person who lies
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 9, lesson 11: mensogi, alvoki, supreniri and 7 more words.