Translation
to cancel, to annul
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Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from the root nul (zero, nothing) plus the causative suffix -ig, so it means literally to make nought. The root comes from Latin nullus, none, which also gave English null and annul.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- nullus
- English cognates
- , annul, nullify
Examples
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They cancelled the plan because of the rain.
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The old contract has been annulled.
?
Do you want to cancel your journey?
is a worked example of the causative -: take , the zero, and - turns it into make-it-zero. A cancelled meeting is , and the noun is . Keep it apart from forigi, which removes a thing that existed; voids an arrangement so that it counts as never having stood. The suffix itself is unpacked in the -ig and -iĝ article.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 16, lesson 8: nuligi, kazo, kuniklo and 6 more words.