Translation
to catch sight of, spot, glimpse
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Examples
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Suddenly I caught sight of him among the people.
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She glimpsed the sea from the hill.
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When he spotted the letter, he cried out.
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We caught sight of a light in the distance.
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The boy spotted his father in the street.
- marks the instant an action starts, so , which is a state you sit in, becomes , the single moment the thing enters your view. English needs a whole phrase for this and Esperanto needs two letters. The prefix is fully productive rather than a closed list, which is why the same corpus gives you , , and without anyone having to coin them. Reach for whenever you would write "suddenly saw".
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 4, lesson 11: ekvidi, kapti, besto and 7 more words.