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Translation

to stop, halt, come to a standstill

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Examples

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The horse stopped in front of the gate.

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We stopped to rest.

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The train stops in every village.

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Stop! shouted the soldier.

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He stopped and looked back.

is intransitive: the thing itself comes to a standstill. To stop something else you need , and is one of the commonest learner slips precisely because English "stop" hides the split. Same shape as and i, though is about an activity ending while is about motion ending. is a stop or pause, a bus stop, senhalte non-stop.

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Word family

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

  • bushaltejonoun

    bus stop

    busohalti-ej-: a place where buses stop

  • stop (bus or tram stop)

    halti-ej-

  • to stop (something), to bring to a halt

    halti-ig-

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This word is taught in chapter 4, lesson 11: halti, ekvidi, kapti and 7 more words.