Kilo Lingo

#220 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to put, to place, to set

Examples

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Put the book on the table.

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He put his hand on my shoulder.

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She put flowers in the window.

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I put the letter in my pocket.

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Where did you put the paper?

The whole grammar of sits in one ending. Because putting is movement, the destination takes the accusative: , , and the question word is , not . Drop the -n and you have said the book was already on the table while you put it, which is nonsense. Compare , which involves no movement and so takes no -n. The root builds well: enmeti (insert), demeti (take off), (assemble, and the term for compound words), i (put away).

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This word is part of lesson 5.