Translation
effort, striving, endeavour
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Examples
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His effort was not in vain.
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After long striving we finally succeeded.
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The committee's efforts lasted a whole year.
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She achieved everything by her own effort.
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Our striving for peace will never cease.
This is with -ad-, the suffix that turns an action into a sustained, ongoing one, so is not a single try but the whole business of trying over time. That distinction is real: is an effort, is striving. Esperanto uses -ad- this way everywhere, and once you see it you get , and for free. It is a heavy, slightly formal word, common in the movement's own literature about the long campaign for the language, and it takes for the goal it strains towards.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 9, lesson 2: penado, konfuzi, speco and 6 more words.