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Translation

to suffer, to endure

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Examples

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She suffered a great deal in her young life.

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He is suffering because of a long illness.

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The people suffered great misery.

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I cannot bear such noise.

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They suffered because of the war for three years.

works both ways. Used intransitively with pro or , it names the cause of the suffering: pro . Used transitively, the object is what you undergo: , on. From that second pattern comes the sense of putting up with something, close to , and the negative is exactly the English "I cannot bear him". The noun is , and i with the causative suffix means to inflict suffering, which is a rather more useful word than one would like.

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This word is taught in chapter 5, lesson 3: suferi, vana, interna and 7 more words.