Translation
to exclaim, to cry out
Examples
" !" .
"There he is!" cried the boy.
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She cried out with joy.
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The man cried out and fell to the ground.
"!" , " !"
"No!" she exclaimed, "I do not believe it!"
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Everyone cried out at the same time.
- marks the sudden beginning of an action, so is one burst where is a sustained shout. That single prefix is the whole difference, and it works the same way on i, i, . Be warned that is the workhorse dialogue verb of Zamenhof-era prose: read the and somebody on nearly every page. In modern conversational Esperanto it reads a shade literary, and does the job with less costume.
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