Translation
to shine, to gleam
Examples
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The sun is shining over the sea.
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Stars shone in the black sky.
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Her eyes shone with joy.
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The gold shone in the light of the fire.
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After the rain the whole garden will shine.
is intransitive: the light comes off the thing itself, and there is no object. To make something shine, add the causative and get i. The adjective brila has picked up the same figurative reach as English brilliant, so a brila is a clever one rather than a luminous one. Keep it apart from lumi, which is what a source of light does, and from , which describes how bright something looks. Gold , a lamp lumas, a room is .
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