Translation
to leave, to leave behind; to let, to allow
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Examples
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I left the book on the table.
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Leave me in peace.
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She left the door open.
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He left his hat in the room.
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Do not leave the child alone.
is transitive and does two jobs: leaving something somewhere, and letting someone do something. is let me go; is the more formal allow. Note that is not the intransitive leave - departing is , and abandoning is . Watch the position too: with no -n on , because the book is not moving to the table in the sentence, it is simply there. And despite the spelling, this root is unrelated to .
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Word family
Words built on lasi with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- forlasiverb
to leave, to abandon, to desert
forlasi
- preterlasiverb
to miss, to let slip by; to omit, to leave out
preterlasi
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 2: lasi, lasta, denove and 6 more words.