Translation
to change, to alter; to exchange
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Examples
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I want to change my name.
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She changed the plan at the last moment.
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We changed our clothes before the party.
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He exchanged gold for bread.
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Nothing will change my opinion of him.
is transitive and stays transitive: somebody changes something. When the thing changes by itself you need , so and never . English blurs the two with one verb and this is the commonest error learners bring across. For swapping one thing for another the preposition is , and interŝanĝi covers a mutual swap. The noun is a change; loose coins are oj, not , whatever the shop assistant in your head says.
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Word family
Words built on ŝanĝi with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- interŝanĝonoun
exchange
interŝanĝi: a mutual changing
- ŝanĝiĝiverb
to change, to alter (intransitive); to turn into
ŝanĝi-iĝ-
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 5, lesson 2: ŝanĝi, postuli, nepre and 7 more words.