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Translation

to tell; to recount

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Examples

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Tell me about your day.

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He told us a terrible story.

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The mother told us about her life.

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I will tell everything I know.

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What did he say about me?

is to tell a story or an account; is to utter words. What is told takes -n, the listener takes , and the topic takes : . The fourth example is a good accusative drill, because and both need the ending for different verbs. is the story, o the storyteller.

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Word family

Words built on rakonti with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.

  • rakontistonoun

    storyteller

    rakonti-ist-: a person who tells stories by trade

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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 12: rakonti, apud, loko and 11 more words.