Translation
heavy
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Examples
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The book is too heavy for the child.
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He carried a heavy stone on his back.
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Heavy clouds covered the sky.
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My heart was heavy after the letter.
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The door closed with a heavy sound.
The root hands you the whole weight family without a dictionary: is weight, is to weigh (intransitive, so ), a is light, and o is the weight you drop on a scale. carries the figurative sense too, exactly as English does: a heavy heart, a heavy silence, a heavy responsibility all take it without anyone blinking. The one thing to watch is against pesi. The second means to weigh something else, so the greengrocer pesas the apples while the apples a kilo.
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Word family
Words built on peza with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- malpezaadjective
light (not heavy)
mal-peza: the opposite of heavy
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 6, lesson 3: peza, pura, fermi and 7 more words.