Translation
the sudden start of an action
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Examples
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I caught sight of him among the people.
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She cried out in surprise.
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He sat down on the bench and said nothing.
is .
We set off early in the morning.
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Everyone stood up when the music began.
- marks the moment an action begins, and usually a sudden one. gives , to catch sight of; gives , to cry out; gives , to sit down as opposed to being seated; gives i, to set off. The verb ending stays put.
The nuance is that - is about the flash of onset, not the whole beginning stretch, so still does the ordinary work of starting something you then continue. Its natural opposite is -ad-, which stretches an action out instead. Do not read every you meet as the prefix: , , and are single roots that simply open with those two letters.
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