Translation
to put, to place, to set
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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), (take off), (assemble, and the term for compound words), i (put away).
Where this fits
Word family
Words built on meti with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- demetiverb
to take off (clothes); to put down
demeti: to put away from
- dismetiverb
to spread out, to lay out
dis-meti: to put in different places
- elmetiverb
to put out, to display; to expose
elmeti
- kunmetiverb
to put together, to assemble
kunmeti
- remetiverb
to put back, to replace
re-meti: to put again
- submetiverb
to submit (for consideration); to subject, to place under
submeti
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 2: meti, lasta, denove and 6 more words.