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The verb "puni" in Esperanto means to inflict punishment or a penalty on someone for a wrongdoing. The word derives from the Latin "punio" and is used to express the act of punishing.

La verbo "puni" en Esperanto signifas aldoni punon aŭ sankcion al iu pro malbona ago. La vorto devenas de la latina vorto "punio" kaj estas uzata por esprimi la agon de punado.

Frequency Rank of Word 1524
Word puni
Meanings
    to
    punish
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/punish
Pinyin null
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Example Sentences
Wiktionary Entry
pūniō
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/punio#Latin
(I punish), from
poena
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poena#Latin
(punishment, penalty), from
Ancient Greek
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek
ποινή
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%AE#Ancient_Greek
(poinḗ, penalty, fine, bloodmoney), from
Proto-Indo-European
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language
*kʷoynéh₂
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/k%CA%B7oyn%C3%A9h%E2%82%82
, from the root
*kʷey-
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/k%CA%B7ey-
(to pay).

Pronunciation

  • IPA
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet
    (
    key
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Esperanto_pronunciation
    )
    : /ˈpuni/
  • Hyphenation: pu‧ni
  • Rhymes:
    -uni
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:Esperanto/uni
  • Audio:
    (
    file
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:LL-Q143_(epo)-Robin_van_der_Vliet-puni.wav
    )

Verb

puni (present

punas
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/punas#Esperanto
, past
punis
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/punis#Esperanto
, future
punos
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/punos#Esperanto
, conditional
punus
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/punus#Esperanto
, volitive
punu
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/punu#Esperanto
)

  1. to
    punish
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/punish
    • 1990,
      H. C. Andersen
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._C._Andersen
      , Knabino, kiu paŝis sur panon [The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf], translation of Pigen, som traadte paa Brødet by
      L. L. Zamenhof
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof
      :
      Ŝi estis tiel malbona, oni devis ŝin dece puni!
      She was so bad, she had to be properly punished!

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • galerpuno
  • karcerpuno
  • monpuno
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/monpuno#Esperanto
  • mortpuno
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mortpuno#Esperanto
  • puna
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/puna#Esperanto
  • puniĝi
  • puno
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/puno#Esperanto
  • senpuna

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