Translation
time
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Examples
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I do not have time.
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We have plenty of time.
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Time passes quickly.
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At that time I still lived there.
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Everything comes in its own time.
Tempo covers both time in general and a particular period, and it is the noun that sits behind the grammatical term verbtempo, a verb tense. After a quantity it takes da rather than de, so it is multe da tempo. Used adverbially for how long something lasted it goes into the accusative, as in longan tempon.
Where this fits
Word family
Words built on tempo with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- antaŭtempaadjective
premature, before its proper time
antaŭtempo
- intertempeadverb
meanwhile, in the meantime
intertempo
- nuntempeadverb
nowadays, at present
nuntempo
- pratemponoun
prehistoric times, the distant past
pra-tempo: the earliest time
- samtempeadverb
at the same time, simultaneously
samatempo
- samtempulonoun
contemporary (person)
samatempo-ul-: a person of the same time
Used in
Grammar articles
(8)Adverbs in Esperanto: -e, and Why estas varme Has No Noun
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Homaranismo: Zamenhof's Creed, Kept Apart from Esperanto
Esperanto Impersonal Sentences: oni, pluvas, estas varme
Esperanto Interjections: Ho, Nu, Ve and Sound Words
Esperanto Proverbs: 15 From Zamenhof's Proverbaro
Esperanto Quantity Words: iom, multe, kelkaj and da
The Esperanto Article la: When to Use It and When Not
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 14: tempo, ankoraŭ, paroli and 7 more words.