The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto - LightNovelsOnl.com
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Cirkaue = _Round about_.
Ciufoje kiam, or, ciun fojon kiam, or, kiam ajn = _whenever_.
Ciujare = _Yearly, annually, every year_.
Ciumonate = _Monthly, every month_.
Ciusemajne = _Weekly, every (each) week_.
Ciutage = _Daily_. Lautage = _By the day_. Tage = _By day_.
Nokte = _By night_.
Cu = _Whether_. An interrogative adverb used at the beginning of a direct question; it has no English equivalent. Cu simply shows that the sentence is interrogative, and therefore, to translate it, we must look to the tense of the verb and to the subject, so as to preface the interrogation with "do," "does," "did," "have," "has,"
"is," "will," "shall," "was," "were," "should," "would," "can," etc.
etc.
Examples.--_Cu vi komprenis?_ = Did you understand? _Cu Johano skribas?_ = Is John writing? _Cu vi povas fari tion?_ = Can you do that? (see remarks on Interrogation, par. 58).
Cu = _whether_ (or _if_ in the sense of _whether_) (a conjunction) is used in indirect questions, when we generally use "if."
Examples.--_Diru al mi, cu li venos_ = Tell me if (whether) he will come. _Diru al mi, se li venos_ = Tell me if he comes.
Cu ... Cu = _Whether ... whether_.
Example.--_Cu li venos, cu li ne venos, Paulo foriros_ = Whether he comes (will come) (or) whether he does not (will not come), Paul will depart.
Dekstre = _On the right._ Maldekstren = _To the left._
Denove = _Afresh_, _again_, _once again_.
Due = _Secondly_, _in the second place_.
Dum = _While_, _whilst_, _as_ (also a preposition and conjunction).
Dume = _Meanwhile._
Eble = _Possibly_, _perhaps_.
Ec = _Even._
Examples.--_Li ec pensis, ke...._ = He even thought that.... _Ec la infanoj insultis min_ = Even the children abused me.
Efektive = _In fact_, _really_, _as a matter of fact_.
Ekstere = _Outwardly._ Interne = _inwardly_, _internally_, _within_, _inside_.
Entute = _On the whole_, _as a whole_.
Facile = _Easily._ Malfacile = _With difficulty._
Fine = _In conclusion_, _lastly_.
For = _Away_, _forth_.
Example.--_For de ci tie fripono!_ = Get thee hence (away), rascal!
Forme = _In shape_, _in form_.
Galope = _At a gallop._
Grandnombre = _In great numbers._
Gisdate = _Up to date._ Gisnune = _Up to now_, _hitherto_.
Gisplue = _Until further notice._
Gissate = _Till satiety (is reached)._
Gustatempe = _Opportunely_, _to time_.
Hierau = _Yesterday._
Examples.-_-Mi lin vidis hierau_ = I saw him yesterday.
_Antauhierau_ = The day before yesterday.
Hierau matene = _Yesterday morning._
Hodiau = _To-day._
Example.--_Li alvenos hodiau_ = He will arrive to-day.
Hodiau vespere = _This (to-day) evening._
Ial = _For some_ (_any_) _reason_, _or cause_ (par. 150).
Example.--_Ial li venis Londonon_ = For some reason he came to London.
Iam = _At some_ (_any_) _time_, _once_, _ever_ (par. 151).
Examples.--_Venu iam morgau_ = Come some time to-morrow. _Cu vi iam renkontis lin?_ = Did you ever meet him?
Ie = _Somewhere_, (_anywhere_) (par. 152).
Examples.--_Mi ne povas gin trovi ie en la cambro_ = I cannot find it anywhere in the room. _Gi estas ie_ = It is somewhere. _Cu vi metis gin ien?_ = Did you put it anywhere?
Iel = _Somehow_, _in some way_, _in some manner_, _anyhow_, (_in any way_) (par. 153).
Examples.--_Iel li sukcesas en cio_ = Somehow he succeeds in everything. _Respondu iel_ = Answer in some manner.
