Translation
to lie, to tell lies
Examples
, .
You are lying, and I know it.
.
He lied to his mother.
.
She never lied about her age.
mensogo .
The lie was too big to believe.
Prefere .
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 . Mensogo is a lie, o a liar, mensoga false or lying as an adjective. Note that a means untrue in the neutral sense - a wrong answer is a or a, not mensoga, because a lie requires the intention to deceive.
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