Infinitive
kuri
Forms
Tenses
| Present | kuras |
| Past | kuris |
| Future | kuros |
| Conditional | kurus |
| Imperative | kuru! |
Participles
| Active past | kurinta |
| Active present | kuranta |
| Active future | kuronta |
| Passive past | kurita |
| Passive present | kurta |
| Passive future | kurota |
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin currō; compare Italian correre, French courir. Doublet of kursoro. See: Latin '
currō', Italian '
correre', French '
courir'.
Verbs referencing "kuri"
Ido kurar.
Sample Sentences
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Kriegante, la viroj kuris tien kaj reen. (Shouting, the men ran back and forth.) [1908, Adolf Krafft, transl., Robinsono Kruso, Part IV:]
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Polemarĥo, la filo de Kefalo, vidis nin de malproksime dum ni iradis hejmen kaj li ordonis al sia sklavo kuri al ni kaj ordoni ke ni atendu. La sklavo kaptis la malantaŭan parton de mia vesto kaj diris, "Polemarĥo ordonas ke vi atendu." (Polemarchus, the son of Cephalus, saw us from afar while we were going home and he ordered his slave to run to us and order us to wait. The slave caught the back part of my clothing and said "Polemarchus commands you to wait.") [2012, Plato, translated by Donald Broadribb, La Respubliko (Traduko al Esperanto) [The Republic (Translation into Esperanto)], 2nd corrected edition (paperback), New York: Mondial, →ISBN, page 17:]
Translations
run, to move quickly on two feet