Kilo Lingo

#390 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to laugh

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 honest etymology than English manages. i makes someone laugh, a is laughable, and o is a roar.

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This word is part of lesson 8.