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what's means malbedaŭrinde?

by spooky84, January 4, 2014

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Language: English

spooky84 (User's profile) January 4, 2014, 4:45:49 AM

I want to know if malbedaŭrinde is a legal the terms and what it means. This words don't appears in my dictionnary.

tommjames (User's profile) January 4, 2014, 10:20:06 AM

Any root in Esperanto can take mal- if it has a meaningful opposite. I suppose the opposite of "to regret" would be "to be happy about", so "malbedaŭrinde" could mean "feliĉe" or "kontentige".

Edit: I just noticed there's a second issue, whether the use of mal- is to be read as malbedaŭr-inde (happily) or as mal-bedaŭrinde (something like "not worth being regretful about" ). I'd go with the former interpretation myself.

sudanglo (User's profile) January 4, 2014, 2:15:46 PM

As Tom says the issue is whether there is a meaningful opposite.

I suppose you might use malbedaŭrinde to contradict someone who has just expressed his regret, but I think the dialogue is more likely to go like this.

A: Bedaŭrinde mi ne povis ĉeesti la kunvenon.
B: Tute ne.

Nile (User's profile) January 4, 2014, 4:39:51 PM

@tomm
I've read that mal- always groups as tightly as possible with its root, which means it is worthy of malbedauxr-.

Uridium (User's profile) January 4, 2014, 5:09:51 PM

Bedauxrinde is "unfortunately, so probably the opposite term is "fortunately".

Nile (User's profile) January 5, 2014, 12:47:31 AM

I agree with Uridium.

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