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#573 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

misery, destitution

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 mizera behaves the same way and can also mean paltry, as in a mizera . o names the destitute person, and turns up constantly in nineteenth century Esperanto translations.

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This word is part of lesson 12.