Translation
to strive towards, to aspire to
Word origin
From German streben ('to strive, to press towards'), one of Esperanto's Germanic roots in a lexicon that leans Romance. English strive looks like a relative and is not: it came in from Old French estriver, to quarrel, so the resemblance is coincidence.
- Origin
- German
- Root
- streben
Examples
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We are striving towards peace between peoples.
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He strove to reach his goal before winter.
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She strove for a long time, and finally succeeded.
Three verbs sit close together here, and the difference is direction. Peni is effort; klopodi is effort with trouble taken, the running about; is effort aimed at something out ahead of you, which is why it so often takes plus a goal. The noun strebo is an aspiration rather than an attempt, and o is the sustained pushing. If your sentence has no target in it, you probably want one of the other two.
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