Wordin 19 sentences
espera
to wait
- Where it comes from
- Spanish/Portuguese esperar, Italian sperare — the root of Esperanto, "one who hopes"
- Group
- Actions
- First taught
- Lesson 13
- In the published corpus
- 19 of the 1321 glossed sentence pairs use it. Only the sentences that carry an English translation are in the corpus, and it is the measure you can check for yourself.
- Looked up in English as
- to wait
- More than one
- espera-espera — the noun said twice, joined by a hyphen. Nothing is added and nothing inside the word changes, so nothing can become irregular. The rule.
In use12 shown
Sentences that use it.
Every one written by hand and checked against the rules. Shortest first.
- Espera momen.Wait a moment.lessons/lesson-26-telling-and-answering
- Yu espera.You wait.texts/text-8-kaifa-suru-ca
- Espera sini.Wait here.texts/text-12-tarik-por-skola
- Mama ta espera.His mother waits.texts/text-6-seti-din
- Rat cang. Mi espera.The night is long. I wait.lessons/lesson-13-weather-directions
- Kita espera dugu yu.We are waiting for your sibling.lessons/lesson-13-weather-directions
- Ta-ta suda espera cok.They waited a lot.lessons/lesson-13-weather-directions
- Ta-ta espera du hora.They wait two hours.texts/text-6-seti-din
- Mi espera din itu.I wait for that day.texts/text-7-surat-por-mama
- Yu espera tri momen.You wait three moments.texts/text-8-kaifa-suru-ca
- Nasab mi espera sini.My relative waits here.texts/text-17-tren-aur-farasi
- Mi suda espera ba hora.I waited eight hours.lessons/lesson-24-the-table-and-the-city
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