"La edzino sopiris pri sia edzo."

Translation: The wife longed for her husband.

[Xombie]

;)

[jiirola]

Given that sopiri means 'to long for' it sounds like a transitive verb. Shouldn't 'sia edzo' be accusative instead of having a preposition lead in?

[CsabaSndor]

You could use "La edzino sopiris sian edzon" - it's correct as well.

[farl_]

I could be 9000% wrong with this, but I think "sopiri pri iu" is closer to the english "to long for someone" and "sopiri iun" is closer to "to miss someone." Could someone explain if I'm kinda getting the right idea?

[salivanto]

Looking over the definitions in PIV and examples of the word sopiri in use, I would say there's no practical difference between "sopiri al" and "sopiri -n". Other prepositions are used as well.

BTW, for "to miss", I say "senti la mankon de".

[farl_]

Ah, I would probably use "sopiri" for missing someone very strongly then. Dankon!

[salivanto]

Well, if you're longing for them, sure.

[HunterJuar]

What's the difference between pri por and pro

[salivanto]

Three years ago (in this same thread) I wrote:

Looking over the definitions in PIV and examples of the word sopiri in use, I would say there's no practical difference between "sopiri al" and "sopiri -n". Other prepositions are used as well.

APRIL 6, 2020

[snailsnail1]

I confused sopiris with soifi(thirsty)

[G-M2]

"The wife thirsted for her husband" sounds very poetic, like something from The Song of Songs (The Song of Solomon).

[TheSnowKing]

Given how modern slang has developed, it most certainly does not sound poetic.

[TobyBartels]

Modern slang is a poetry of its own.

[AutumnTafoya0]

This might be a dumb question, but isn't the preposition "al" supposed to go with "sopiri" instead of "pri," like in Jonny M's song Al la Liberec'?

[KubisFowler]

No practical difference here between any of the variety of prepositions used with sopiri and even the accusative.