hejmen

Esperanto

Etymology

From hejme (“at home”) +‎ -n (suffix indicating destination).

Adverb

hejmen

  1. to one’s home; home
    • 1926, American Esperanto Magazine, page 8:
      La venontan matenon ni devis—malsuprentiri la tendojn por iri hejmen.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 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:
      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."
      (literally, “Polemarchus, the son of Cephalus, saw us from afar while we went home and he ordered to his slave to run to us and order that we wait. The slave caught the back of my clothing and said "Polemarchus commands that you wait."”)
    • 2017, Kalle Kniivilä, La strato de Tanja: Vivo en Rusio 1917-2017, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, page 56:
      Avo tre volis, ke ankaŭ mi venu hejmen.
      Grandpa really wanted me to come home too.
    • 2018, Tim Owen, Judith Meyer, Complete Esperanto: Learn to Read, Write, Speak and Understand Esperanto, John Murray Learning, →ISBN:
      Ni ne volis reveni hejmen, ĉu ne?
      We didn't want to come back home, right?
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