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Estas Mi I Ke Certa Ne Speech Sixth

The Esperanto word "certa" means certain, sure, or determinate. It is an adjective, and its form typically ends in "a".

La Esperanta vorto "certa" signifas certa, certa, aŭ certa. Ĝi estas adjektivo, kaj ĝia formo kutime finiĝas per "a".

Frequency Rank of Word 499
Word certa
Meanings
    certain
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/certain
    ,
    sure
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sure

    1910,

    L. L. Zamenhof
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof
    , speech at the sixth
    World Congress of Esperanto
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Congress_of_Esperanto
    in Washington, D.C.:

    certain
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/certain
    ,
    some
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/some
    ,
    determinate
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/determinate

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Wiktionary Entry , from
Latin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin
certus
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/certus#Latin
.

Pronunciation

  • IPA
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet
    (
    key
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Esperanto_pronunciation
    )
    : /ˈt͡serta/
  • Hyphenation: cer‧ta
  • Rhymes:
    -erta
  • Audio:
    (
    file
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:LL-Q143_(epo)-Lepticed7-certa.wav
    )

Adjective

certa (accusative singular

certan
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/certan#Esperanto
, plural
certaj
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/certaj#Esperanto
, accusative plural
certajn
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/certajn#Esperanto
)

  1. certain
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/certain
    ,
    sure
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sure
    • 1910,
      L. L. Zamenhof
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof
      , speech at the sixth
      World Congress of Esperanto
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Congress_of_Esperanto
      in Washington, D.C.:
      Mi estas certa, ke kiam ni ilin revidos, ni ne plu rekonos ilin.
      I am sure that when we see them again, we will no longer recognize them.
    Antonym:
    necerta
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/necerta#Esperanto
  2. certain
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/certain
    ,
    some
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/some
    ,
    determinate
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/determinate
    • 1907,
      L. L. Zamenhof
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof
      (tr.),
      La revizoro
      https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/eo:La_revizoro
      , Paris: Esperantista Centra Librejo, translation of Ревизор by Nikolaj Vasiljeviĉ Gogol,
      Acto unua
      https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/eo:La_revizoro/1
      :
      Nu, en certaj okazoj multe da saĝo estas pli malbona, ol se oni ĝin tute ne havus.
      Now, in certain cases a lot of wisdom is worse than if you had none at all.

Related terms

  • certe
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/certe#Esperanto
  • certi
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/certi#Esperanto

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