Translation
to come in, to enter
Examples
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The doctor came in without knocking.
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Come in, madam, the room is warm.
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When she came in, everyone fell silent.
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A cold wind came in through the window.
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He will come in in a few minutes.
is with - welded on, and the prefix already carries the direction, so the plain intransitive verb is usually enough: needs no object at all. If you do name the place, Esperanto wants the accusative of motion, as in or the more explicit . Compare , which is the neutral going-in, and , which is arriving at a destination after a journey. quietly points at the speaker: it is the word for someone appearing in the room you are already sitting in.
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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 19.