Translation
to drive away, to chase off, to expel
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Examples
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The dog chased the cat out of the garden.
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They drove the enemy out of the town.
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The sun drove the clouds away.
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I could not drive that thought away.
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The master turned the old servant out.
on its own means to drive or urge along, and for- adds away, so is driving something off. Note the direction of the grammar: is transitive and you do it to somebody, while is intransitive and the runner does it themselves. Do not confuse it with , which is leaving a place or a person behind, or , which is removing a thing. The prefix for- is freely productive and gives , and , all with the same sense of movement away from here.
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Word family
Words built on forpeli with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- forpeladonoun
expulsion, driving out
forpeli-ad-: the act of driving away
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 10, lesson 8: forpeli, kompari, maltrankvila and 7 more words.