Translation
misery, destitution
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Examples
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They lived in great destitution.
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The war brought misery to the people.
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He could not forget the misery of his childhood.
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Destitution and hunger ruled in the town.
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She helped the people in destitution.
leans harder towards material destitution than English "misery" does. A person in has no bread and no roof; a person who is simply wretched about something is or . Use the wrong one and you sound as though you are describing a famine when you meant a bad Tuesday. The adjective behaves the same way and can also mean paltry, as in a . o names the destitute person, and turns up constantly in nineteenth century Esperanto translations.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 6, lesson 11: mizero, fiksi, vasta and 6 more words.