Mi Ke Hope Eo Conj Esperi Esperas La I

(
transitive
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transitive
,
intransitive
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intransitive
) to
hope
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hope

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet
  (
  key
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Esperanto_pronunciation
  ): /esˈperi/
• Hyphenation: es‧pe‧ri
• Rhymes:
  -eri
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:Esperanto/eri

Verb

esperi (present

1. (
   transitive
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transitive
   ,
   intransitive
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intransitive
   ) to
   hope
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hope
   • 1907,

     Vallienne, Henri
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eo:Henri_Vallienne

     ,

     Kastelo de Prelongo
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eo:Kastelo_de_Prelongo

     ,

     ch. 1
     https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/eo:Kastelo_de_Prelongo/%C4%88apitro_Unua

     :

     Mi esperas, ke li ne

     preterlasis

     la

     vagonaron
     https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vagonaron#Esperanto

     .

     I hope he didn't miss the train.

   • 1910,

     Zamenhof (translator), L. L.
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof

     , Marta, Paris: Librairie Hachette, translation of original by Eliza Orzeszkowa,

     page 67
     http://books.google.com/books?id=CapVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67

     :

     Mi esperas, ke mi mem min helpos.

     I hope I can help myself.

   • (Can we

     date
     https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Requests_for_date

     this quote?), Harlow (translator), Donald J., Fiereco kaj antaŭjuĝemo‎

     [1]
     http://donh.best.vwh.net/Esperanto/Literaturo/Noveloj/fiereco.html

     , translation of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, chapter 34:

     Ĉu vi supozus, ke mi ĝojos pri la malnobleco de viaj parencoj? — gratulos min, ke mi esperas parencojn, kies vivkondiĉoj estas tiom definitive sub la miaj?

     Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connexions? — to congratulate myself on the hope of relations, whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?

Conjugation

Antonyms

• malesperi
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malesperi#Esperanto
  (“to
  despair
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/despair
  ”)

Related terms

• espero
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/espero#Esperanto
  (“hope”)
• Esperanto
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Esperanto#Esperanto
  (“Esperanto”)