Kilo Lingo

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Translation

to use, to make use of

Examples

ĉiutage.

I use that word every day.

bone.

She used the time well.

?

Which language do you use at home?

, .

He does not know how to use the tool.

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We will use every means.

is transitive and blunt. Where English hides an instrument inside "use", Esperanto usually brings it out with per: a fluent speaker writes per rather than , and the shorter version is the more natural one. The root gives uzo, uzanto for a user, a for usable and eluzi for wearing something out through use. is a cousin worth knowing: useful, and the thing you say when something is worth using.

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This word is part of lesson 6.