Infinitive
esperi
Forms
Tenses
| Present | esperas |
| Past | esperis |
| Future | esperos |
| Conditional | esperus |
| Imperative | esperu! |
Participles
| Active past | esperinta |
| Active present | esperanta |
| Active future | esperonta |
| Passive past | esperita |
| Passive present | esperta |
| Passive future | esperota |
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *speh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *spéh₁s
5. Proto-Italic *spēs
6. Old Latin spēs
7. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
8. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
10. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
12. Proto-Italic *-ājō
13. Proto-Italic *-āō
14. Old Latin -ō
15. Old Latin *spēsō
16. Latin spērāre
17. Old French esperer
18. Middle French esperer
19. French espérerbor.
20. ▲
21. Latin spērāre
22. Italian sperarebor.
23. ▲
24. Latin sperō
25. Old Spanish esperar
26. Spanish esperarbor.
27. ▲
28. Latin spērāre
29. Old Galician-Portuguese asperar
30. Portuguese esperarbor.
31. ▲
32. Latin spērāre
33. Old Occitan esperar
34. Occitan esperarbor.
35. ▲
36. Latin spērāre
37. Catalan esperarbor.
38. Esperanto esperi
39. Borrowed from French espérer, Italian sperare, Spanish, Portuguese, Occitan, and Catalan esperar, from Latin spērō. See: French '
espérer', Italian '
sperare', Latin '
spērō'.
Verbs referencing "esperi"
Ido esperar.
Sample Sentences
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Mi esperas, ke li ne preterlasis la vagonaron. (I hope he didn't miss the train.) [1907, Henri Vallienne, Kastelo de Prelongo, ch. 1:]
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Mi esperas, ke mi mem min helpos. (I hope I can help myself.) [1910, L. L. Zamenhof (translator), Marta, Paris: Librairie Hachette, translation of original by Eliza Orzeszkowa, page 67:]
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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?) [(Can we date this quote?), Donald J. Harlow (translator), Fiereco kaj antaŭjuĝemo, translation of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2012, chapter 34:]
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Eblas diri, ke ŝi estas "feministo" en epoko, kiam virinoj ankoraŭ ne esperis havi la samajn rajtojn, kiujn havis viroj. (It's possible to say she was a "feminist" in an epoch, when women did not yet hope to have the same rights as men did.) [2025 November 27, Renée Triolle, “La unua eŭropano, kiu vizitis Tibeton Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969)”, in uea.facila, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2025:]
Translations
hope, to want something to happen, with expectation that it might