Kilo Lingo

#668 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to interrupt

Examples

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Do not interrupt me when I am speaking.

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He broke off his work to eat.

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The sudden noise interrupted our meeting.

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She interrupted him with a sharp question.

vilaĝan .

The rain interrupted the village festival.

- plus : to break into the middle of something. The object can be the person talking or the activity itself, and both are common. Note the double r at the join, which is written and pronounced.

Set it beside , which stops something happening at all, and , which is what an activity does when it ends of its own accord. Interrompo is the interruption, and seninterrompe means without a break.

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This word is part of lesson 14.