Translation
useful, helpful
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Examples
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That book is very useful for beginners.
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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, , meaning to be of use, which is neater than the English circumlocution - for that is no help. o is usefulness, 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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Word family
Words built on utila with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- malutilaadjective
harmful
mal-utila: the opposite of useful
- senutilaadjective
useless
senutila: without use
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 6, lesson 2: utila, amaso, ruĝa and 7 more words.