Translation
to laugh
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Examples
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The children laughed loudly in the garden.
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Do not laugh at me!
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He laughed until he cried.
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She laughed and kissed him.
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Everyone laughed at his joke.
is intransitive, so there is never an object after it. You laugh a thing when you are mocking it and pro a thing when it is the cause, and is simply wrong. The diminutive is the nice bit: , a small laugh, is the word for a smile, which is a more transparent etymology than English manages. i makes someone laugh, a is laughable, and o is a roar.
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Word family
Words built on ridi with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- ridegiverb
to roar with laughter
ridi-eg-: to laugh hard
- ridetiverb
to smile
ridi-et-
- ridindaadjective
ridiculous, laughable
ridi-ind-: worth laughing at
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 4, lesson 12: ridi, klara, ha and 6 more words.