Translation
motionless, still
Examples
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He stood motionless in front of the door.
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The water was completely still.
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She looked at me with motionless eyes.
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The animal lay motionless in the grass.
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Stay still for one minute.
- plus mov- plus the adjective ending, and it means what it looks like. The construction is worth noticing because Esperanto builds adjectives from prepositions freely: , senhoma for deserted, senkulpa for innocent, senfina for endless. English needs a different suffix for each of those. There is also the adverb senmove, which is often the better choice after a verb of posture - senmove describes how he stood, while describes him. Both are correct, and Esperanto writers use them almost interchangeably.
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