Translation
to cause, to make (someone do something)
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Examples
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The noise made me wake up.
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She made him laugh.
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What made you come so late?
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The sun made the room warm.
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They made me wait too long.
This is the suffix -- set loose as a word in its own right, and it earns its keep when the thing you want to cause has no handy root of its own. Two patterns cover almost everything: , where the person made to act is the direct object and the second verb stays in the infinitive, and , where an adjective follows the object.
Its mirror is , to become. Where a compound already exists, prefer it: i beats , and beats .
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 6: igi, salono, kvieta and 7 more words.