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Translation

impossible

Examples

.

That is completely impossible.

.

An impossible task awaited him.

e .

It is not impossible to learn the language quickly.

.

She asked for something impossible.

.

The road was impossible because of the snow.

The prefix matters. - reverses a quality into its opposite, while - simply denies it, and possibility has no meaningful opposite - either a thing can happen or it cannot. So is the form you want, and it is written solid as one word. The adverb e and the noun o follow the same pattern. Do not confuse it with : a difficult task is one you can still finish, a one is not on the table at all. English blurs this when it calls a tiresome person "impossible", and so, cheerfully, does Esperanto.

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This word is part of lesson 15.