alkanti

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Esperanto

Etymology

From al- +‎ kanti.

Pronunciation

Verb

alkanti (present alkantas, past alkantis, future alkantos, conditional alkantus, volitive alkantu)

  1. (intransitive) to sing along, join in singing
    • Maria Ŝidlovskaja (translator), Princo Serebrjanij (Prince Serebrenni) by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Chapter 39,
      Unu militisto duonvoĉe ekkantis melodion; aliaj alkantis, kaj baldaŭ ĉiuj voĉoj formis komunan ĥoron, kiu potence plenigis la aeron sub la densa arbara tegmento...
      One soldier quietly began to sing a melody; others joined in, and soon all the voices together formed a chorus that powerfully filled the air under the thick roof of the forest canopy...
    • Kathe R. and Paul E. Schwerin (translators), Brulanta Sekreto (Burning Secret) by Stefan Zweig, Chapter 7,
      ĝi devas esti la sama, pro kiu ili ĉiam ŝlosas la pordon antaǔ mi, pri kio temas en la libroj kaj en la operoj, kiam viroj kaj virinoj kun etenditaj brakoj alkantas, ĉirkaǔprenas kaj forpuŝas sin.
      it must be the sort of thing that makes people send (lit. lock) me out of the room, the sort of thing books are always going on about, and operas where men and women sing together with their arms spread wide, and hug and then push each other away. (Anthea Bell translation, Pushkin)
  2. (intransitive, transitive, figurative) to sing the same tune, to echo (another person’s words or ideas)
    • Vladimir Varankin, Metropoliteno,
      Neniu alia, kiel Trockij, kulpigas nin pri renaskiĝo kaj putrado. Ĉu ne tion alkantas Ivagin? Sed vi defendas lin!
      No one else, like Trotsky, accuses us of resurgence and corruption. Doesn’t Ivagin sing the same tune? And yet you defend him!

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