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Translation

to take away, to remove

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Examples

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They took everything away from him.

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Please take away that chair.

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The war took his son away.

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She took the book out of my hands.

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Nobody will take away your freedom.

The preposition matters here. You take something away from a person with : . Use when you mean physically out of a container or a hand. keeps the idea of taking - somebody now has the thing - whereas just means make it go away, no new owner implied. So a thief , a cleaner the dirt. The prefix for- is doing exactly what it does in and , so once you have one of them the rest come free.

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This word is taught in chapter 9, lesson 8: forpreni, sklavo, konsisti and 7 more words.