Kilo Lingo

#556 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to pray

Examples

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She prayed to God for her son.

o silente .

The old woman prayed silently in the corner.

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Let us pray for peace in the world.

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He prayed every morning before work.

preĝo .

The prayer was short but sincere.

Two prepositions do the work here and they are not interchangeable. names who you are praying to, or names what you are praying for. The verb is otherwise intransitive, so the thing prayed for is never a direct object. Preĝo is a prayer, a church, and the volitive is what you will meet in translated liturgy. Note the ĝ, which is the j of judge rather than a hard g, so the word comes out as PREH-jee and not PREG-ee.

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This word is part of lesson 12.