Translation
to prosper, to thrive; to succeed
Examples
.
The town prospered for many years.
, .
I hope that your work will prosper.
.
His business is not thriving.
.
The flowers thrive in the warm garden.
!
May our language prosper and live long!
is intransitive: a thing prospers, nobody prospers a thing. If you want the causative, add --: i , to make the business prosper. The subject can be a person, a town, a business or a plant, which is broader than English prosper allows. Zamenhof used it freely in the sense of turning out well, so reads as the matter came to nothing rather than the matter went bankrupt. For the narrow sense of managing to do a specific thing, is the safer verb.
Where this fits
Add to review queue
Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.
Go to my review queueEsperanto · Free printables
prosperi: worksheet, infographic and listicle
Free printable study downloads for the Esperanto word "prosperi" (to prosper, to thrive; to succeed): a worksheet with the answer key built in, an infographic, and a sentence listicle. Open any one to view, print or save.
Free for members
The printable worksheets, infographics and PDFs are free with an account. Start a free week and download as many as you like.
Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 17.