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#307 of 3,000Core 1000

Translation

away, off

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Examples

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He has been away from home for three days now.

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Away from me!

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She is already gone.

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The money is gone and nobody knows where to.

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They ran away through the garden.

For is a small word that earns most of its living as a prefix. Bolt it onto a verb and you get the action plus "away": , , , , , . Four of those are common enough to have their own entries in the top thousand. Standing alone it is an adverb of place, so for is to be away or gone, and for gives you the point departed from. As a bare exclamation, For! is a shout of get out, and For ! is how a placard says down with war.

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Word family

Words built on for with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.

  • forigiverb

    to remove, to get rid of, to delete

    for-ig-

  • foriĝiverb

    to go away, to leave

    for-iĝ-: to get oneself away

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This word is taught in chapter 4, lesson 1: for, ĝusta, forgesi and 7 more words.