Translation
to leave, to abandon, to desert
Examples
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He left his home forever.
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Do not abandon me!
kuraĝo .
Courage left him at that moment.
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They left the city before the war.
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She left the room without a word.
Three verbs share the English word "leave" and they are not interchangeable. is transitive and always needs an object, the thing you leave behind: a room, a country, a person. is intransitive and just means you go away, no object at all. is to let or to leave something somewhere, so puts a book down while abandons it. Learners write with nothing after it, which reads as an unfinished sentence to anyone who speaks the language.
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