esperi

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əsˈpe.ɾi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [esˈpe.ɾi]
• Hyphenation: és‧pe‧ri

ésperi

1. inflection of esperar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French espérer, Italian sperare, Spanish, Portuguese, Occitan, and Catalan esperar,^[1][2] from Latin spērō.

• IPA^(key): /esˈperi/

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• Rhymes: -eri
• Syllabification: es‧pe‧ri

esperi (present esperas, past esperis, future esperos, conditional esperus, volitive esperu)

2. (ambitransitive) to hope

   Antonym: malesperi

   • 1907, Henri Vallienne, Kastelo de Prelongo, ch. 1:

     Mi esperas, ke li ne preterlasis la vagonaron.

     I hope he didn't miss the train.

   • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof (translator), Marta, Paris: Librairie Hachette, translation of original by Eliza Orzeszkowa, page 67:

     Mi esperas, ke mi mem min helpos.

     I hope I can help myself.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Donald J. Harlow (translator), Fiereco kaj antaŭjuĝemo‎^[1], translation of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, archived from the original on 2 March 2012, chapter 34:

     Ĉu vi supozus, ke mi ĝojos pri la malnobleco de viaj parencoj? — gratulos min, ke mi esperas parencojn, kies vivkondiĉoj estas tiom definitive sub la miaj?

     Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connexions? — to congratulate myself on the hope of relations, whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?

   • 2025 November 27, Renée Triolle, “La unua eŭropano, kiu vizitis Tibeton Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969)”, in uea.facila‎^[2], archived from the original on 23 December 2025:

     Eblas diri, ke ŝi estas "feministo" en epoko, kiam virinoj ankoraŭ ne esperis havi la samajn rajtojn, kiujn havis viroj.

     It's possible to say she was a "feminist" in an epoch, when women did not yet hope to have the same rights as men did.

• Esperanto (“Esperanto”)

• “esperi”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “esperi”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-present
• Wells, John C. (1992), “trust”, in Concise Esperanto and English Dictionary‎^[3], →ISBN, page 400
• Benson, Peter J. (1995), “expect, trust”, in Comprehensive English-Esperanto Dictionary‎^[4], →ISBN, pages 198, 553
• Butler, Montagu C. (1967), “esper-i”, in Esperanto-English Dictionary‎^[5], →OL, page 116