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That would be kuraci :)
(Though perhaps "care for, treat" is more fitting as according to PIV, a bettering of the state of the patient is not a guaranteed part of the meaning - it uses provi "try to" in this connection.)
If you speak French or Spanish, then courir or correr "run" is the cognate of kuri.
Compare also a courier (who runs quickly to deliver important mail) or a corridor (which runs along the length of a building).
Thank you for your explanation :)
I don't know Spanish and French (yet ^^), but I do know German and English. And kuri does seem to resemble "to cure" a lot...
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I almost went for the runner
<pre>La kuristo ŝatas kuri. The runner likes to run.
La kuracisto ŝatas kuri. The doctor likes to run.
</pre>And "La kuraĉisto" would be somebody who professionally runs really, really badly :)
In russian kurit' means to smoke, so at first I found this sentence a bit odd...
A kuracisto is someone who heals, a doktoro has a doctoral title.
A PhD in economics is a doktoro but not a kuracisto, while a village healer can be a kuracisto even if he never went to university to become a doktoro.
(Though PIV says that a kuracisto has "successfully studied medicine" and is therefore "permitted to heal people", so my last part may not be accurate.)
Thank you for the good explanation! I expected something like that but I was not sure. That helped me a lot. But in this case "La doktoro sxatas kuri" could also be accepted, right?
If you're asked to translate "The doctor likes to run" into Esperanto, then probably both should be accepted, yes.
