Example Sentences

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Just look at that dek: “Salt needs a new companion.”

From Slate • Sep. 22, 2016

See this glossary for definitions of , dek, lede, TK, and more.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2010

Gradually, perhaps under the influence of a Middle English AMA, the worm was given sole rights to the word, and the doctor became the doctor, out of dek, meaning to accept, later to teach.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Unuflanken homo dek tagojn vojaĝante venus al montegaro: aliflanke staris granda lago kaj senlimaj marĉoj.

From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John

Example.—Longa je dek futoj, or, Longa dek futojn = Ten feet long.

From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by Cox, George