Translation
to lift, raise
Examples
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He lifted the heavy stone.
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She raised her eyes to the sky.
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Raise your hand if you know.
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The wind lifted the papers.
demandon .
We will raise the question at the meeting.
is strictly transitive - something lifts something else. If nobody is doing the lifting, use , the reflexive-ish -- form, which is how the sun rises and how a person gets up out of a chair. English hides this distinction under raise and rise and gets it wrong constantly; Esperanto marks it with two letters and never confuses the two. Ellevi is to lift out and o is a lever.
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