Translation
to tie, to bind, to connect
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Examples
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He tied the horse to the tree.
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She tied the two pieces together.
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What ties you to that town?
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The river connects the village with the sea.
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Friendship bound them together for many years.
Two prepositions, two shades. fastens one thing onto another, which is the horse and the tree. joins two things as equals, which is the river and the sea. Both are correct; picking the wrong one is not fatal but it reads oddly.
-- gives for the tie, cord or bond, and is a link or a league in the political sense. i unties, kunligi binds together, and interligi interconnects. The metaphorical use in the last two examples is as natural in Esperanto as in English.
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Word family
Words built on ligi with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- ligilonoun
a fastening, a cord for tying; a link (on a website)
ligi-il-
- malligiverb
to untie, to undo
mal-ligi: the opposite of tying
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 2: ligi, spiri, gasto and 6 more words.