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Some help needed with translation

من Altulo, 8 مايو، 2014

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Altulo (عرض الملف الشخصي) 8 مايو، 2014 9:17:03 م

I'm currently reading "Karlo" to expand my comprehension and I've come across "palpante" and don't know what it means. I've looked in a few dictionaries I have, but can't find it. Does anybody know what it means?

Dankon!

nornen (عرض الملف الشخصي) 8 مايو، 2014 9:38:47 م

"palpante" is the adverbal form of the present participle active of "palpi", "to touch".

So, depending on the rest of the text, it means either "in a touching manner", or it is a predicative refering to the subject of the clause, as e.g.:

Palpante vian manon, mi ekdormis. = Touching your hand, I fell asleep.

Altulo (عرض الملف الشخصي) 8 مايو، 2014 9:41:19 م

Dankon! I wasn't sure what the root was, but I did suspect it was a particple. ridulo.gif

morfran (عرض الملف الشخصي) 8 مايو، 2014 9:42:44 م

Altulo:I'm currently reading "Karlo" to expand my comprehension and I've come across "palpante" and don't know what it means. I've looked in a few dictionaries I have, but can't find it. Does anybody know what it means?
It comes from palpi “to feel, handle, touch”, sort of like English “palpate”.

If you’re new to Esperanto, know that the -ant- makes it a present participle, that is, “feeling, handling, touching”. The -e makes it an adverb, so “while touching, by touching”, and so on, depending on the context.

Edit: Gah! Nornen beat me to the punch on this one. ridego.gif

erinja (عرض الملف الشخصي) 8 مايو، 2014 9:42:47 م

It's to touch but it's touching in the terms of feeling around something with your hands.

The lernu dictionary translates it as "provi senti per la fingroj" - to try to feel, by means of the fingers.

So the example with falling asleep while "palpante" someone's hand, it basically means feeling around for the person's hand while you fall asleep. Palpi might be something you'd do in a dark room (feeling around to find your way), or asking someone "feel this bag, isn't it lumpy?"

noelekim (عرض الملف الشخصي) 9 مايو، 2014 4:33:42 ص

Altulo:I'm currently reading "Karlo" to expand my comprehension and I've come across "palpante" and don't know what it means. I've looked in a few dictionaries I have, but can't find it. Does anybody know what it means?
If you do this - translate.google.com/#eo/en/palpante - that's to say, paste the word into Google Translate and select Esperanto-English, you get:

palpante - feeling

When you click on "feeling", you see "feeling" "groping", "handling", which pretty much covers "palpi".

noelekim (عرض الملف الشخصي) 9 مايو، 2014 5:10:54 ص

Logos Conjugator is another handy service, at www.logosconjugator.org/

Enter 'palpante' and you get two entries, 'palpare' next to an Italian flag, and 'palpi' next to the verda stelo.

Click 'palpi', and you see a full conjugation of the verb, including 'palpante'. The categories are in Italian, but they are so similar to English and Esperanto that they're easy to read.

Altulo (عرض الملف الشخصي) 9 مايو، 2014 9:11:37 م

Dankon, noelekim. I'll make sure to bookmark logosconjugator.

Multajn dankojn al cxiu kiu helpas min. (I think I got that right. okulumo.gif )

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