Translation
to swim
Word origin
From French nager, 'to swim', which descends from Latin navigare, 'to sail'. The sailing word shrank to swimming in French, and Esperanto took it at that size.
- Origin
- French, from Latin
- Root
- nager, from navigare
- English cognates
- navigate
Examples
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The children are swimming in the river.
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I learned to swim in the sea.
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We swam all day.
is intransitive: you swim, full stop, and where you do it takes a preposition, , . A swimmer is naĝanto, a swimming pool . The ĝ is the j of jam, so the word is NA-dji.
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