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Provi Mi I Volas Vi Tion Devas Devis

The Esperanto word "provi" means to try, attempt, or to test something. Its past, future, conditional, and volitive forms are "provis", "provos", "provus", and "provu" respectively. It originates from Italian "provare".

La vorto "provi" en Esperanto signifas provi, provis, provos, provus, aŭ provu, kaj ĝi signifas ankaŭ transigi por provi aŭ testes. Ĝi devenas el la itala provare.

Frequency Rank of Word 283
Word provi
Meanings
    (
    transitive
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive
    ) to
    try
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/try
    ,
    attempt
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/attempt

    to try out,

    test
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/test

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Example Sentences
Wiktionary Entry
provare
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/provare#Italian
.

Pronunciation

  • IPA
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet
    (
    key
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Esperanto_pronunciation
    )
    : /ˈprovi/
  • (
    file
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:LL-Q143_(epo)-Robin_van_der_Vliet-provi.wav
    )
  • Hyphenation: pro‧vi
  • Rhymes:
    -ovi

Verb

provi (present

provas
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/provas#Esperanto
, past
provis
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/provis#Esperanto
, future
provos
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/provos#Esperanto
, conditional
provus
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/provus#Esperanto
, volitive
provu
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/provu#Esperanto
)

  1. (
    transitive
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive
    ) to
    try
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/try
    ,
    attempt
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/attempt
  2. to try out,
    test
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/test

Conjugation

See also

  • juĝi
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ju%C4%9Di#Esperanto
    (to put on trial, try)
  • peni
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/peni#Esperanto
    (to take pains, make an effort, try)

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