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Translation

ready, prepared

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Examples

?

Are you ready yet?

.

The meal is ready on the table.

.

I am ready to help you.

.

They were not ready for the long journey.

is .

She got the room ready for the guests.

Two patterns cover almost every use. Before an infinitive, stands bare: . Before a noun it takes : . The affixes then hand you the rest of the family without any new vocabulary. i is to get something ready, i is to get yourself ready, and a covers not ready at all. overlaps but is the longer process rather than the finished state, so the soup you for an hour is only at the end.

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This word is taught in chapter 6, lesson 9: preta, bordo, ĉefa and 5 more words.