Translation
to drive away, to depart (by vehicle)
Examples
sepa.
The train departed at seven.
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They drove off to the big city.
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We will depart tomorrow morning.
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The ship has already departed without us.
?
When did you depart from the village?
Two pieces, both of them productive. For- means away, and it attaches to almost any verb of motion: leave on foot, run away, take away, drive off. means to travel by vehicle rather than under your own legs, so is specifically departing by train, car, ship or horse. Walking out of the room is , not , and getting that right is a small mark of someone who has read some Esperanto rather than only translated into it.
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