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Meaning of sufrir | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
suˈfɾiɾ

Definitions

  1. to suffer
  2. Equivalent to 'ache': Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.

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Examples

“[…] os empregados non se deixan asoballar pola súa maldade, e o mesmo porteiro deprendeu a poñerlle cara de can. Somente Pedro é un manteiguiñas, incapaz de defenderse. A covardía do xefe cabalga na covardía de Pedro, para locí-las arroutadas que non é quen de descargar no lombo dos outros. Pedro sofre en silenzo; pero cóme-no as xenreiras, e non pode ollá-la cara daquel home sen desexarlle a morte.”

[…] employees don't allow him to humiliate them with his meanness, and even the doorman learnt to put an angry face for him. But Pedro is a poor thing, unable to defend himself. The boss' cowardice rides Pedro's, to show off the outbursts that he is incapable of discharging over other's shoulders. Pedro suffers in silence; but spite eats him, and he can't watch that man's face without wishing him death.

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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