Translation
useful, helpful
Examples
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That book is very useful for beginners.
konsilo .
Your advice was useful to me.
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Not everything useful is beautiful.
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The new tool turned out to be very useful.
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I want to do something useful today.
Both prepositions work and they mean different things: is useful to a person, is useful for a purpose. The root gives a verb, utili, meaning to be of use, which is neater than the English circumlocution - utilas for that is no help. o is usefulness, senutila useless, and a harmful, which is the one worth memorising because English has no matching pair. Note (to use) is a separate root, however tempting the resemblance.
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