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Translation

fast; quick

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Examples

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He is very fast.

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Come quickly!

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We did a quick job.

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The years go by quickly.

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He is slow but sure.

One root, the whole family: fast, quickly, speed, to hurry, o swiftness. The - prefix hands you (slow) at no cost, which is the trick that makes a couple of hundred roots stretch so far. As an adjective it agrees: , , .

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Word family

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

  • malrapidaadjective

    slow

    mal-rapida

  • rapideconoun

    speed

    rapida-ec-: the quality of being fast

  • rapidiverb

    to hurry, to rush

    rapida: to be fast

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rapida: worksheet, infographic and listicle

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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 8: rapida, sub, nenio and 11 more words.