atendi

From Latin attendō.

• IPA^(key): /aˈtendi/

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• Rhymes: -endi
• Hyphenation: a‧ten‧di

atendi (present atendas, past atendis, future atendos, conditional atendus, volitive atendu)

1. (ambitransitive) to wait (for someone or something)

   Mi atendis lin dum tridek minutoj.

   I waited for him for thirty minutes.

   Ni atendos dum ke vi aĉetas manĝaĵojn.

   We will wait while you buy food.

   • 2012, Plato, translated by Donald Broadribb, La Respubliko (Traduko al Esperanto) [The Republic (Translation into Esperanto)], 2nd corrected edition (paperback), New York: Mondial, →ISBN, page 17:

     Polemarĥo, la filo de Kefalo, vidis nin de malproksime dum ni iradis hejmen kaj li ordonis al sia sklavo kuri al ni kaj ordoni ke ni atendu. La sklavo kaptis la malantaŭan parton de mia vesto kaj diris, "Polemarĥo ordonas ke vi atendu."

     Polemarchus, the son of Cephalus, saw us from afar while we were going home and he ordered his slave to run to us and order us to wait. The slave caught the back part of my clothing and said "Polemarchus commands you to wait."

     (literally, “Polemarchus, the son of Cephalus, saw us from afar while we went home and he ordered to his slave to run to us and order that we wait. The slave caught the back of my clothing and said "Polemarchus commands that you wait."”)

2. (transitive) to expect

   Ni atendas respondon al nia peto.

   We are expecting a response to our petition.

• atendo
• ĝisatendi
• neatendita
• neatendite

atendi

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of atender

atendi

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of atender