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Esto
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Esperanto
Noun
esto (uncountable, accusative eston)
Derived terms
- ĉeesto (“presence”)
Derived terms
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Finnish
Etymology
Action noun from the verb estää: estää (“to inhibit, block, prevent”) + -o.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: es‧to
Noun
esto
- block, blocking, blockage
- lapsipornon ~ : child porn block
- (psychology) An inhibition.
- (sports) An interference.
Declension
| Inflection of esto (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | esto | estot | |
| genitive | eston | estojen | |
| partitive | estoa | estoja | |
| illative | estoon | estoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | esto | estot | |
| accusative | nom. | esto | estot |
| gen. | eston | ||
| genitive | eston | estojen | |
| partitive | estoa | estoja | |
| inessive | estossa | estoissa | |
| elative | estosta | estoista | |
| illative | estoon | estoihin | |
| adessive | estolla | estoilla | |
| ablative | estolta | estoilta | |
| allative | estolle | estoille | |
| essive | estona | estoina | |
| translative | estoksi | estoiksi | |
| instructive | — | estoin | |
| abessive | estotta | estoitta | |
| comitative | — | estoineen | |
Anagrams
Ido
Etymology
Borrowing from English east, French est, German Osten, Italian est, Spanish este, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *austrą.
Noun
esto (uncountable)
Abbreviations
Synonyms
Antonyms
See also
| nord-westo | nordo | nord-esto |
| westo | 
|
esto |
| sud-westo | sudo | sud-esto |
Italian
Etymology
Pronoun
esto m (feminine esta)
- (demonstrative, archaic) this
- Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto I:
- Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura
esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte
che nel pensier rinova la paura! - Ah, how rueful to say what sort it was
this wilderness wild and harsh and daunting
that in my thoughts makes my fright alive again
- Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura
- Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto I:
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Latin
Etymology 1
Form of the verb edō (“I eat”).
Verb
ēstō
- second-person singular future active imperative of edō
- third-person singular future active imperative of edō
Etymology 2
Form of the verb sum (“am”).
Verb
estō
- second-person singular future active imperative of sum
- third-person singular future active imperative of sum
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -esto
Pronoun
esto
- neuter singular of éste (“this”)
- ¿Qué es esto? ― What is this?
See also
Spanish personal pronouns
| nominative | dative | accusative | disjunctive | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first person | singular | yo | me | mí1 | |||
| plural | masc. | nosotros | nos | nosotros | |||
| fem. | nosotras | nosotras | |||||
| second person | singular | tuteo | tú | te | ti1 | ||
| voseo | vos | vos | |||||
| formal2 | usted | le | lo/la3 | usted | |||
| plural | familiar4 | masc. | vosotros | os | vosotros | ||
| fem. | vosotras | vosotras | |||||
| formal/general2 | ustedes | les | los/las3 | ustedes | |||
| third person | singular | masc. | él | le | lo | él | |
| fem. | ella | la | ella | ||||
| neut. | ello5 | lo/la3 | ello | ||||
| plural | masc. | ellos | les | los | ellos | ||
| fem. | ellas | las | ellas | ||||
| sing. & pl. | reflexive | — | se | sí1 | |||
- Like other masculine Spanish words, masculine Spanish pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
- If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g., "Se lo dije" instead of "Le lo dije")