Mia verda hararo koloriĝis
B1 Esperanto listening practice · Esperanto (constructed language) · Curated for intermediate learners
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What does the ending “-iĝi” mean in Esperanto?
-iĝi
Esperanto word-building
the ending for “become X” — turns a color into “turned that color”
Documenting her hair-dye results, this creator narrates the whole process with one repeated ending: her hair koloriĝis (became colored), a previous dye job paliĝis (faded), and before that it had fandiĝis (melted/blended) into a different shade. -iĝi turns almost any root into “become [root]” — no separate verb needed for each new state.
The pattern scales the same way mal- does: granda (big) → grandiĝi (to grow); malbona (bad) → malboniĝi (to worsen). Pair -iĝi with a preposition prefix and it stacks further still — ellitiĝi, “to get out of bed,” elsewhere in this batch, is el- (out) + lito (bed) + -iĝi (become) all in one word.
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