Translation
to pack, to wrap up
Word origin
A Germanic borrowing, from German packen and Dutch pak, the same family as English pack. The word travelled with the bale it named, through the wool trade, into most of northern Europe.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Root
- packen
- English cognates
- pack, package, packet
Examples
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I have to pack my suitcase before the journey.
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She packed the books into a big crate.
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The present was wrapped in red paper.
is the everyday verb for putting things into something for carrying: a suitcase, a crate, a parcel, a present in paper. The bundle that results is pako, and the three obvious prefixed forms all behave exactly as you would guess - enpaki to pack in, elpaki to unpack, kunpaki to pack together. Since you can build them yourself, they get no separate page here.
One genuine ambiguity is worth flagging. English pack also means to crowd a space (the hall was packed), and Esperanto does not stretch that far: a full room is or homplena, not . Keep for things you put into containers and the word will not let you down.
Register note for the traveller: jam ? is as ordinary in Esperanto as it is in English, and it is one of the first genuinely useful sentences a learner can deploy at a congress the night before everybody leaves.
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