Translation
to drink
Examples
ĉiutage.
I drink water every day.
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Do you want to drink wine or water?
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He drank and ate too much.
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We will have a drink together after the meeting.
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The horse drank from the river.
is transitive and takes a plain accusative, so with no preposition; the source of the liquid takes , as in . The affixes do the rest of the work you would expect: o is a drink as a thing, o is the place that sells them, and a is a polite way of calling somebody fond of a glass. Note that Esperanto keeps eating and drinking strictly apart - unlike English soup, which you eat, is normally , so the pairing is not a safe guide.
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