Translation
shadow, shade
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Examples
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We sat in the shade of a big tree.
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His shadow fell on the wall.
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The shadows grew long during the evening.
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In the darkness she saw only shadows.
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The mountain cast a shadow over the village.
English splits this into shadow, the dark shape, and shade, the cool place out of the sun; Esperanto uses for both and lets context sort it out. is to cast a shadow, literally and figuratively, and works for standing in someone's shadow just as it does in English. means shady, to shade, senombra without shadow. One warning: , an umbrella, is a separate root that only looks like a relative.
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ombro: worksheet, infographic and listicle
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 5, lesson 13: ombro, frua, devigi and 7 more words.