Translation
to describe
Examples
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Can you describe the man?
vojaĝon .
He described the journey in a long letter.
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She described her home to us.
vivon .
The book describes life in the village.
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I cannot describe my joy.
Take , fold the preposition onto the front, and the thing you were writing about becomes a plain direct object. That is the - trick, and it is fully general: , priparoli, prirespondi all work the same way. Despite the spelling, no actual writing is required - you can a face out loud. The noun is priskribo, and nepriskribebla does indescribable in one word.
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