Translation
to swim
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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 , a swimming pool . The ĝ is the j of jam, so the word is NA-dji.
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Word family
Words built on naĝi with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- naĝejonoun
swimming pool
naĝi-ej-
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 12, lesson 2: naĝi, finfine, stulta and 6 more words.