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abide [vb] - domo (live, reside, dwell)
able [vb] (to be able) - ablo
about [prep] - konsa (concerning)
accompanied [adj] - pare
accompany [vb] - paro
act [vb] - dramo (dramatize)
adhere [vb] - hero (stick to, follow as in ~ the rules)
after [adj] - veste
agglutinate [vb] - gomuno (glue together, conglomerate)
agglutinating [adj] - gomunotse
airplane [n] - avolotsu
all [adj] - ale
alone [adj] - nyepare (solo, unacompanied)
alone, to be [vb] - nyeparo
ancient [adj] - uchalte
and [conj] - a
appear [vb] - piaro (as in appears to be, seems to look like, etc.)
area [n] - lozhu (place, region)
arena [n] - kombariu (sports arena, stadium); lutariu
arrange [vb] - ordo (place in order)
art [n] - artu
art gallery [n] - artariu (art museum)
artistic [adj ] - arte
artistically [adv] - arty
as [conj] - asna (he smiled ~ he left the room)
at last [idiom] - uchaza (lit. the many-est time)
atom [n] - tomu (particle, bit, root of a word)
bad [adj] - male
bake [vb] -feuro (fire)
barter [vb] - barto (trade, swap)
battle [n] - hichu
battle [vb] - hichio
battlefield [n] - hichampu
be [v] - beo
before [adj] - vorte
beg [vb] - suplo (pray)
big [adj] - arge
bigger [adj] - argere
biggest [adj] - argese
bit [n] - tomu (atom, particle, root of a word)
blend [vb] - mishro (mix)
blend [n] - mishru (mixture)
boat [n] - nahu
book [n] - libu
borrow [vb] - boro
both [adj] - dibre
build [vb] - struko (construct)
buy [vb] - aco (purchase)
brick [n] - briku
bring together [v] acreo (gather)
bush [n] - boshlu (or small tree)
call [vb] - namiako (as in the command call him John).
called [adj] namiche (named, as in a boy ~ John)
camp [n] - kamparitu
camp out [vb] - kampo
campgrounds [n] - kamparitu
care [vb] - serno (be concerned, about a thing. Not applied to a
person)
cart[ n ] (horse drawn) - bisutu
cat [n] - pusku
chamber [adj] - kamare (said of ~ music, etc.)
choose [vb] - vilo (decide)
chunk [n] - fraju (piece, fragment)
church [n] - suplariu; suplorim (chappel); venariu (house of worship) transariu;
invokariu;
city [n] - abadu
climb [vb] - quabo
clown [n] - klonu (fool)
clown [vb] - klono
collect [vb] - colo(organized collection); piso (toss things together)
collection [n] - colu (usu. for display); pisu (jumbled pile of things)
|combat [n] - kombu
combat [vb] - kombo
compete [vb] - luto (said of physical sports and contests)
competition [n] - lutu (sporting event, match, contest)
complete [adj] - kape (done)
concerned, be [vb] - serno (be care, about a thing. Not applied to a
person)
concerning [prep] - konsa (about)
concert hall [n] - muzikariu (music hall)
conglomerate [vb] - gomuno (agglutinate, glue together)
conglumerate [n] - gomunu
conglumeration [n] - gomunachu
construct [vb] - struko (build)
continent [n] - kalentu
control [vb] - rego (govern)
create [vb] - geno; mako (make)
cup [n] - chalu (glass)
current [adj] - kurne (modern, up to date)
decide [vb] - vilo (choose)
delve [vb] - delvo (dig)
departed [adj] - goniche (gone, something that has departed)
dig [vb] - delvo (delve)
dinning room [n] - esorim
discover [vb] - desko (find)
distance [n] - denzu
donate [vb] - dano (give)
done [adj] - kape (complete)
dormitory [n] - domariu
drama [n] - dramu (play)
dramatize [vb] - dramo (act)
during [conj] - tiwa (while), iqua (when)
dwell [vb] - domo (live, reside, abide)
dwelling [n] - domu
E-E-E
each other [pn] - iyotu
earth [n] - teru
east [n] - emu
eat [vb] - eso
eating area, outdoor [n] - esaritu
eclectic [adj] - acreiche
eight - vida (see numbers)
eighty - vidisa (see numbers)
eleven - diona (see numbers)
emerge [vb] - tribavo (evolve)
entire [adj] - atre
everything [n] - panu
everywhere [n] - panashu
evolve [vb] - tribavo (emerge)
exact [adj] zacte (precise)
example [n] - isplesu
experiment [n] - speru
experiment [vb] - spero
expose [vb] - reavo (reveal, uncover)
factory [n] - makariu
faith [n] - fidu
faithful [adj] - fide
faithful [n] - fido (to be faithful)
fake [adj] - afne (fraudulent, phoney)
father [n] - padru
favor [vb] - favo
favorite [adj] - fave (also my favorite: faviku[n], etc. favikue[adj])
favorite [n] - favu
few [ajd] - lese
fewer [adj] - lesere
fewest [adj] - lesese
fifty - findisa (see numbers)
find [vb] - desko (discover)
fire [vb] - feuro (bake)
first - onaza (see numbers)
fish [n] - fisu
fish [vb] - fiso
five - finsa (see numbers)
flat [adj] - glose (smooth)
fly [vb] - avolo
follow [vb] - hero (stick to, adhere to, as in ~ the rules)
fool [n] klonu (clown)
foolish [adj] - klonute
foolishness [n] - klonutertu
forty - quandisa (see numbers)
four - quana (see numbers)
fragment [n] - fraju (piece, chunk)
fraudulent [adj] - afne (fake, phoney)
from [prep] - aba
game [n] - gamu
game room [n] - gamorim
gather [v] - acreo (bring together)
girl [n] - yolu
give [vb] - dano (donate)
glass [n] - chalu (cup, drinking glass)
glue [n] - gomu
glue [vb] - gomo
glue together [vb] - gomuno
go [vb] - go
gone [adj] - goniche (departed, to describe something now gone)
govern [vb] - rego (control)
government building [n] - regariu
grow [vb] - trivo
happen [vb] - okuro (occur)
happiness [n] - felertu
happy [adj] - fele
have [vb] - habo
he [pn] - tu (she, it)
heap [n] - pisu (pile)
heap [vb] - piso (to pile up)
hey [int] - yavi (lit. hey you plu.)
high [adj] - tave
how [] - kwa (used only to form a question: how much, how many, how far,
etc.)
how many [adj] - quanive
illusion [n] - tasiu
in [prep] yira (within)
influence [n] - swaju
influence [vb] - swajo
instead of [prep] resuta
into [prep] - abra
it [pn] - tu (he, she)
journey [v] - jerno
journey [n]- jernu
kind of [adj] - ponase (type of, style of)
know [vb] - guno
laboratory [n] - sperarim
language [n] - linu
lesson [n] - anlu
level [adj] - glose (smooth, flat)
library [n] - libariu (public); liburim (room in a house)
little [adj] - tizne (small)
little bit [idiom] - muzhe tizne
live [vb] -domo (as reside, dwell, abide)
love [vb] - amo
make [vb] - mako; geno (create)
man [n] - guznu
manner [adj] - hode (as in way or method of doing something)
many [adj] - udne
marketplace [n] - bartampu
me [pn] - ku
meditate [vb] - transo
meditation hall [n] - transariu
meditation room [n] - transorim
mention [vb] - ilio
merely [adv] - yemly
mix [n] - mishro (blend)
mix [vb] - mishro (blend)
modern [adj] - kurne (current, up to date)
mortar [n] - kagomu
mountain [n] - erbu
movie [n] - kinu
movie theater [n] - kinariu
much [adj] - uche (very) as in ~ happy. (usu. prefixed to another adj. as
uchi-)
museum [n] - colariu
music [n] - musiku
music hall [n] - muzikariu (concert hall)
music room [n] - muzikorim
musical [adj] - muzike
musician [n] - musikisu
name [n] - namu
name [vb] - namo
named [adj] namiche (called, as in a boy ~ John)
neat [adj] - orde (tidy, orderly)
never [adv] - nyekrony
never mind [vb] - nyeseniako (do not be concerned about)
nine - raza (see numbers)
ninety - razdisa (see numbers)
no [adj/adv] - niya, nuse; (not[adv] nusy)
north [adj] - anze
north [n] - anzu
number [adj] - nive (quantity)
number [n] - nivu (quantity) quanive = how many
occur [vb] - okuro (happen)
ocean [n] - oshinu (sea)
of - [prep] - -ibu (used as a suffix as in mishribu = a mixture of)
of course [idiom] - vu guno (lit. you know)
oil [n] - sligu
old [adj] - alte
one - ona (see numbers)
one hundred - onaku (see numbers)
only [adj] - sole
only [adv] - yemly
opera house [n] - kantariu
order [vb] - ordo (arrange, place in order)
orderly [adj] - order (tidy, neat)
other [adj] - ere
out [adv] - exy
page [n] - bedu (sheet)
parallel [adj] - ondenze (lit. one distance)
particle [n] - tomu (bit, atom, root of a word)
perform [vb] - spilo (as in a theatrical or musical performance. to play
an
instrument)
performance [n] - spilu
person [n] - manu
phoney [adj] - afne (fake, fraudulent)
piece [n] - fraju (chunk, fragment)
picnic [n] - piknu
picnic [vb] - pikno
picnic grounds [n] - piknaritu
pile [n] - pisu (jumble, heap)
pile [vb] - piso (put things together in a pile)
pilot [n] - avolisu (of an airplane)
pitch [n] - gu (sap from a tree)
pizza [n] - pitsu
pizzaria [n] - pitsariu
place [n] - lozhu (usu. in the sense of region or area)
play [n] - dramu (drama)
play [vb] - gamo (as in a game)
play [vb] - spilo (perform, as on a musical instrument, or theatrical
performance)
please [vb] siduvo (used idiomatically as siduvy before a verb)
possess [vb] - osino
pray [vb] - suplo (beg)
prayer [n] - suplu
pre- [prefix] pra-
precise [adj] - zacte
prefix [n] - vortenatu
purchase [vb] - aco (buy)
quantity [adj] - nive
regimented [adj] rije (strict, rigid)
region [n] - lozhu (place, area)
regulation [n] - statu (rule)
reside [vb] - domo (live, dwell, abide)
restaurant [n] - esariu
reveal [vb] reavo (uncover, expose)
ride [vb] (on horseback) -
rigid [adj] - rije (regimented, strict)
ritual, place of [n] - invokariu; invokorim
ritual, to perform a [vb] - invoko
rock [n] - kagu
room [n] - kamu
room, public [n] - kamariu
root [n] - tomu (root of a word, bit, atom, particle)
rule [n] - statu (regulation)
sand [n] - liku
sap [n] - gu (tree sap, pitch)
say [vb] - udo (p.t. undo)
sea [n] - oshinu (ocean)
see [vb] - vizo
seem [vb] - piaro (appear to be)
seven - yena (see numbers)
seventy - yendis (see numbers)
shall [vb] - yilo (will)
she [pn] - tu (he, it)
sheet [n] - bedu (page)
shorthand [n] - rapeskriu
sing [vb] - kanto
singer [n] - kantisu
singing [adj] - kante
sink [vb] - oshmo (submerge)
six - sepa (see numbers)
sixty - sepdisa (see numbers)
small [adj] - tizne (little)
smile [vb] - shimo
smooth [adj] - glose (flat, level)
snow [n] - izmu
snow [vb] - izmo
solo [adj] - nyepare (alone, unacompanied)
some [adj] - verale (unspecifed number of)
song [n] - kantu
south [adj] - igre
south [n] - igru
speak [vb] - palo
stadium [n] - komariu (sports arena); lutariu
stick to [vb] - hero (adhere, folow as in ~ the rules)
stone [n] - kagu (rock)
store [n] - acariu
storeroom [n] - panarim
strict [adj] - rije (regimented, rigid)
strong [adj] - hakate
structure [n] - strukachu
study [n] - estiorim (a room in a house)
study [vb] - estio
study hall [n] - estiariu
style [adj] - ponase (as in type of, kind of, or style of)
submerge [vb] - oshmo (sink)
substitute [n] - subsiu
substitute [vb] - subsio
substituted [adj] subsiache
substitution [n] - subsiachu
suffix [n] - vestenatu
swap [vb] - barto (trade, barter)
system [n] - logu
systematic [adj] -loge
T-T-T
tall [adj] - tave
tar [n] - teregu (lit. earth sap)
temple [n] - invokariu (place of ritual)
ten - disa (see numbers)
thank you [vb] - shubisno (idiomatic usage)
that [pn] - senu (which. as in the boy ~ ran away)
theater [n] - dramariu (as in live theater)
there [n] - da (that place)
they [pn] - ti
think [vb] - denko
thirty - kirdisa (see numbers)
this [pn] - se (abreviated s' and attached to a noun as in this house:
s'domu)
three - kirsa (see numbers)
tidy [adj] - orde (neat, orderly)
time [n] - kronu
to [prep] - ta (toward, in the direction of)
trade [vb] - barto (swap, barter)
travel[vb] - jerno (journey)
tree [n] - boshlu (small tree or bush), baku (large tree)
twelve - ditosa (see numbers)
twenty - todisa (see numbers)
two - tosa (see numbers)
unacompanied [adj] - nyepare (alone, solo)
uncover [vb] - reavo (reveal, expose)
understand [vb] - prendo
unknown [adj] - nyeguno
unknown [n] - nyegunu
verb [n] - kshunatu
very [adj] - uche (much) as in ~ happy. (usu. prefixed to another adj. as
uchi-)
vocabulary [n] - colibunatu
warehouse [n] - panariu
way [adj] - hode (as in manner or method of doing something)
we [pn] - ki
west [adj] - sete
west [n] - setu
when [conj] - iqua , wiwa (while, during)
where [conj] - aza (the place ~ it will be found)
which [pn] - senu (that)
while [conj] - tiwa, (see when; iqua)
will [vb] - yilo (shall)
with [prep] - pwa
within [prep] - yira (in)
word [n] - natu
world [n] - omblu
worse [adj] - malere
worst [adj] - malese
worship [vb] - veno
write [vb] - skrio
writing [n] - skriu
written [adj] - skre
year [n] - anu
you [pn] - vu (singular); vi (plural)
young man [n] - praguznu (lit. pre-man)
zero - zota (see numbers)