Translation
to become; enter that state
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Examples
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The boy became a man.
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I was born in a small village.
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She sat down beside the window.
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The sun rose above the sea.
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The door opened by itself.
-- is the mirror of --: nobody does it to you, you simply end up in the state the root names. is to make, is to become. is to be sitting, is to sit down. is to lift, is to rise. gives , to get married. The result is always an intransitive verb, and it cannot take an object.
Two things catch learners out. is to give birth, so is to be born, and the two are easy to swap under pressure. And -- is not the passive: says the door came open, with no hand implied, while says somebody opened it. Choose by whether an agent exists.
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Grammar articles
(12)Esperanto Affixes That Are Also Words: ilo, aro, eta, igi
Esperanto Aspect Affixes: ek-, re-, -ad-, dis- and mis-
Esperanto hodiaŭ: Where the Language Actually Lives
Esperanto -ig- and -iĝ-: Making and Becoming
How to Actually Learn Esperanto, and Why It Is Faster
Esperanto Food and Cooking Words: Kuirarto kaj Manĝo
The Esperanto Congress: Universala Kongreso and Its Words
Esperanto Grammar on One Page: All 16 Rules
The Esperanto Passive: -ata, -ita, -ota and esti
The Esperanto Reflexive: si and sia vs li and lia
Esperanto Transitivity: Which Verbs Take an Object
Esperanto Affixes: The Full List of Prefixes and Suffixes
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