Translation
to fall
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Examples
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The leaves are falling from the trees.
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He fell to the ground.
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She fell and hurt her knee.
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Snow fell all night long.
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The book fell off the table.
is intransitive: things fall by themselves, and there is no object. To drop something is i, with the causative --, and English speakers reach for there far too often. Where the falling ends up takes the accusative of direction - , not - because the ground is the destination, not the location during. Where it falls from takes . The root builds enfali, i (to fall apart) and for a fall in every sense, including the political kind.
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Word family
Words built on fali with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- akvofalonoun
waterfall
akvofali: a fall of water
- disfaliverb
to fall apart, to fall to pieces
dis-fali: to fall in pieces
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 4: fali, kies, alta and 7 more words.