Infinitive
negoci
Forms
Tenses
| Present | negocas |
| Past | negocis |
| Future | negocos |
| Conditional | negocus |
| Imperative | negocu! |
Participles
| Active past | negocinta |
| Active present | negocanta |
| Active future | negoconta |
| Passive past | negocita |
| Passive present | negocta |
| Passive future | negocota |
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Esperanto negoco
3. Proto-Italic *-jezi
4. ▲
5. Latin -ereinflu.
6. Latin -īre
7. French -irbor.?
8. ▲
9. Latin -īre
10. Spanish -irbor.?
11. Proto-Indo-European *-yétider.
12. Latin -īre
13. Old Galician-Portuguese -ir
14. Portuguese -irbor.?
15. ▲
16. Latin -ire
17. Italian -irebor.?
18. ▲
19. Latin -iō
20. Romanian -ibor.?
21. Esperanto -i
22. Esperanto negoci
23. From negoco (“transaction”) + -i (verbal suffix).
Sample Sentences
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Apud la blankaj muroj[…]negocis je krucetoj kaj helkolorigitaj sanktaj bildoj maljunulinoj. (Beside the white walls […] old women were bargaining for crosses and brightly colored holy images.) [1933, Vladimir Varankin, “* * * Kvazaŭ...”, in Metropoliteno [Metro], Moskvo: Progreso, published 1992:]
Translations