Kilo Lingo

#735 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to complain

Examples

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He complains about the weather.

.

She never complained about her lot.

.

The guests complained to the host.

, !

Don't complain, work!

on apuda .

I heard a complaint from the next room.

Two prepositions do the work and they do not overlap: introduces the grievance, the person hearing it. manĝo puts both in one sentence and is the shape worth memorising. The verb is intransitive, so nothing takes -n. o is a complaint, a describes the sort of person who makes them habitually, and a is a state genuinely worth complaining about, which is a distinction English has to spell out at length.

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This word is part of lesson 15.