Translation
to seize, to grab, to snatch
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Examples
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He seized my hand.
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The boy snatched the apple and ran away.
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A sudden fear gripped her.
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Grab the rope with both hands!
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I will seize the chance when it comes.
- marks the sudden start of an action, so where is to catch, is the abrupt grab that begins it. The prefix is one of the cheapest ways to add colour in Esperanto: becomes , becomes , becomes . All of them mean the same thing, namely the first instant of the verb rather than the whole of it. takes a direct object with -n and works just as happily with an abstract subject, so a feeling can a person exactly as a hand can.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 10, lesson 3: ekkapti, vagonaro, ŝanĝiĝi and 7 more words.