Translation
to end, to come to an end
Examples
sepa .
The meeting ended at seven o'clock.
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Everything good ends too quickly.
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The road ended at the river.
?
When will the war end?
feliĉe.
Let the story end happily.
English lets one verb do both jobs: I ended the meeting, the meeting ended. Esperanto makes you choose. is transitive and needs an object, is what the object then does by itself. but . Getting this backwards is the single most common slip English speakers make with the -- suffix, and it happens across the whole verb system, not just here.
The root also gives for the end, fine for finally, and the emphatic for at long last.
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